Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum, 1914.9-24.4,Given by Sir Hercules Read, L.L.D.
Site: England,Greater London,Croydon,Addington,Golf Course,Hoard found in August 1914, brought by Albert Tibball.
Hoard: yes
Discovery context: golf course
Parish: Addington
District: Tonbridge and Malling
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 37 64
Year of discovery: 1914
Length (mm): 72
Width (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 38
Weight (g): 172
Patina: Green
Surface: Corroded
Associations: 1-48; 6 socketed celts; 7 fragments socketed celts; 1 winged celt; 3 fragments winged celt; 1 socketed gouge; 1 conical jet; 1 chape of sword or dagger scabbard; 1 domed disc; 1 fragment ribbed spearhead; 1 fragment knife or dagger; 5 fragments swords; 1 fragment sword handle; 19 copper cakes.
Description: Cutting edge missing. Looped.
Publications: Proc. + Trans. Croydon Nat. History and Scientific Soc., 1916-7, p. CVIII
Remarks: Inacc.; CI