Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2421
Site: England,Suffolk,Felixstow, near,1883
Parish: Felixstowe
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1883
Length (mm): 120
Width (mm): 43
Edge (mm): 47
Thickness (mm): 37
Weight (g): 261
Patina: Bright blue-grey patina in one part: the rest dirty and rough green.
Surface: Corroded
Other: Weight: 260.81 gms
Associations: Hoard comprising Nos. 2421-2440, viz. 11 socketed celts and fragments; 1 piece of a sword blade, 2 spearheads broken, 3 knives, 1 gouge, 1 saw, 1 chape, 3 jets, 1 lump of bronze.
Description: Single moulding below heavy collar. One side of butt smashed; open crack extending downward 35mm.
Publications: Proc. Soc. Antiq. XI, 8.