Object: Socketed celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell (Southend on Sea),276/40,34
Site: England,Essex,Leigh,Fleming Avenue,Prittle Brook,29.1.26 (found by workmen)
Parish: Leigh-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): A: 47,B: 50
Width (mm): 30.5,42.5
Thickness (mm): 7,15.5
Weight (g): 35.43,56.7
Surface: A: encrusted, grey green corroded patina,B: clean golden bronze on outside, some corrosive light green patina. Slightly encrusted on inside, thin very dark brown patina.
Associations: A bronze founder's hoard