Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Municipal Museum, Hull, 123
Site: Riding,Everthorpe,Gravel Pit at side of Hull and Barnsley line where High Road Bridge crosses it at Everthorpe.,1842
Discovery context: gravel extraction
Parish: Everthorpe
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1842
Length (mm): 100
Width (mm): 36
Edge (mm): 46
Thickness (mm): 38
Weight (g): 241
Patina: Dull green.
Associations: One of 12 socketed celts + 2 lumps of bronze (originally 16 implements + 2 lumps).
Description: May have been partly ground recently (at edge) + has been damaged in places by blows. Good condition, but has a casting hole on face. Sharp edge.
Publications: Described and figured with complete hoard (as still remaining) in "The Naturalist" p. 236, 1923, by Mr. J. Sheppard.