Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, No.1927-2451,(H. Prigg, 1867)
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach Fen,Found in peat.,1867
Discovery context: peat
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 97
Width (mm): 42
Edge (mm): 57
Thickness (mm): 41
Weight (g): 258
Patina: Brown
Other: Weight: 258.22 gms
Associations: Hoard of at least 60 objects and fragments, comprising 14 socketed celts (1 at Cambridge Museum, 3 fragmentary), 3 spearheads and 5 pieces, 1 fragment of sword blade, 11 knives including oddments, 7 small tools (i.e. tanged chisel, socket hammer, 3 gouges, 2 punches), 3 mounts, 1 chafe, 6 buttons, 2 rings, part of a bracelet, 6 or more fragments and piece of metal at Cambridge, Evans Collection Nos. 1927-2451-2489.
Description: Squarish mouth. Single moulding below collar with 5 pendant ribs (other 2 marginal), each ending in a pellet. Edge chipped. Blade beaten out at corner leaving side concave.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, Hoard No. 82, pp. 112, 113, 118, 122, 133, 167, 174, 187, 205, 210, 211, 213, 216, 229, 283, 305, 314, 315, 317, 319, 397, 400, 467; Figs. 116-7, 124, 159, 221, 241, 251, 256, 263, 285, 371, 386, 390, 493-4, 499,H. Prigg, Journ. Arch. Assn. XXXVI, 56 ft.,Cyril Fox, Arch. Cambridge Region, Hoard No. 32, pp. 60-1, 65, 324.