Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: City and County Museum, Lincoln,1930
Site: England,Lincolnshire,West Halton,Found in ploughing on Mr. Burkill's land in the Old Cow Pasture, by the sand-drain which falls into the Winteringham Have, N. of road to Winterton.,17 December 1852
Parish: West Halton
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1852
Length (mm): 69
Width (mm): 31
Edge (mm): 39
Thickness (mm): 34
Weight (g): 113
Patina: Green and brownish patina.
Other: Weight: 4 oz. = 113.398 gms
Associations: 17 socketed celts + 3 other pieces of bronze (2? sword fragments; the ploughshare struck where they were all "candied" together. Another larger celt was found later and a jet of metal and a small broken speciment another time. 8 socketed celts, a jet and an oval fragment are in British Museum.
Description: 3 ribs on faces.
Publications: Archaeol. Journal, X, pp. 69-71, illust.,Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., Hoard No. 91, pp. 113, 118, 120, 424, 467