Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2628,Medhurst Collection
Site: England,Dorset?,Blandford?
Parish: Blandford
County: Dorset
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 102
Width (mm): 28
Edge (mm): 51
Thickness (mm): 31
Weight (g): 113
Surface: A good deal of rough oxide.
Other: Weight: 112.70 gms
Associations: Possibly part of a large hoard from Blandford (Evans, op. cit.)
Description: Thin tinny lead-coloured bronze. Oval mouth. Section hexagonal. 2 fine diverging ribs on faces and a single rib on each of the sloping sides.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 127