Object: Socketed Celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum,  80- 11- 24- 24,  Presented by AW Franks Esq,  ( Henry Medland, Melbourn, Royston),  24/11/1880
Site: England, Cambridgeshire, Meldreth
Parish: Meldreth
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TL3746
Year of discovery: 1880
Length (mm): 53
Edge (mm): 45
Weight (g): 51
Patina: green
Surface: corroded
Other: A note below Site says "Founder's Hoard,  All found together by a workman in,  November 1880 near Meldreth Station,  Royston Cambs. Stated to be the whole of ,  the find",  Next to Associations the hoard is listed as follows;,  17 socketed Celts  6 fragments swords,  5 fragments "          1 Knife or Razor,  2    " Winged Celts 2 Pieces edge of vessel,  1  Chisel       1 rough piece fom casting,  I  Gouge       15  Copper cakes,  1  Spearhead    9 Fragments  Various,  ,
Associations: 1-53  see transcriber's notes