Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,C.H. Grinling, Esq.,17 Rectory Place, Woolrich, SE 18,1920,Obtained from Joseph Fels, Esq., the owner of Basildon Farm.
Site: England,Essex,Billericay,Basildon Farm,1909
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Billericay
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1909
Length (mm): 104
Width (mm): 34
Edge (mm): 53
Thickness (mm): 30
Weight (g): 198
Patina: Some light greenish bronze and blue patina.
Surface: A little rough. A good deal of heavy encrustment.
Other: Width: edge 53mm; socket 33.5mm,Weight: 198.44 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard consisting of 9 socketed celts, a spear head, 2 gouges, portion of a knife, etc. and a socketed celt now in the Museum of the Royal Academy of Literature, History, and Antiquities, Stockholm + an equal weight of rough ore (copper cake?)
Description: Loop is cracked right through. Earth resembling clay adheres nearly all over.