Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridgeshire,Deck Collection
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Bottisham Fen
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Bottisham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 99
Width (mm): 39
Edge (mm): 47
Thickness (mm): 37
Weight (g): 215
Patina: Bright green patina and whitish green. Brown on the sides and in the grooves.
Surface: Rough
Other: Length: 98.5mm
Description: Loop broken off. Treble moulding round the mouth. Below the mouldings on each face are four semi-circular grooves suggesting the wing ornament. Between the inner two and above are two short converging grooves triangle with its apex downside.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes, 108. No catalogue found yet.,Bronzes 44. Numbers can be found in catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue, 151, May 1884.