Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell (Southend on Sea),276/46
Site: England,Essex,Leigh,Fleming Avenue,Prittle Brook,29.1.26 (found by workmen)
Parish: Leigh-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): 95.5
Width (mm): socket 34.5 edge 42.5
Thickness (mm): socket 32.5
Weight (g): 141.75
Patina: has been dark green, a good deal chipped off, powdery light green beneath.
Surface: smooth
Associations: A bronze founder's hoard
Description: B. shows the position of a slotted stop, the flat stop is shown at A. C shows how sides of socket slope down to the slot & the hollow beneath it. The hollow seems to have extended right up to the edge.