Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,Mr. A. Winship,No. 9,Hoard lent to Cambridge Antiquarian Museum, 1928,Dep. 31.1
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Chesterton
Parish: Chesterton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 111
Width (mm): 51
Edge (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): 46
Weight (g): 409
Patina: Green
Surface: Well preserved.
Other: Length: 110.5mm,Width: edge 62.5mm; socket 50.5mm
Associations: Part of Hoard comprising 13 socketed celts + 8 fragments, 1 spearhead, 1 gouge, 1 ring, 14 lumps of metal.
Description: 2 central ribs on faces wide apart flanked by lateral ribs at angles. Part of cutting edge blunted.
Publications: Not to be published yet.