Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum, deposited by W.C. Wells Esq. 1911. (2362.11)
Site: England, Essex, Grays Thurrock
Parish: Grays
District: Thurrock
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 99
Width (mm): edge 51, socket 40
Thickness (mm): socket (below loop) 29.25
Weight (g): 251.6
Patina: a little medium green patina.
Surface: rather smooth. Slight encrustment on one side - near the edge. Smoother on the other side & golden bronze showing. Traces of chalk on blade.
Associations: One of a bronze Founder's Hoard.
Description: Gravel inside socket.