Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Saffron Walden Museum, CLXXVI,Given by Joseph Clarke.
Site: England,Essex,Arkesden,near Chardwell Farm,while land-draining, 1872.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Arkesden
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 72
Width (mm): 31
Edge (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 103
Other: Weight: 102.5 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard of about 60 pieces.
Description: Good condition except for cracks in socket.
Publications: Trans. Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1873. Illustrations.