Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell (Southend on Sea),276/2
Site: England,Essex,Leigh,Fleming Avenue,Prittle Brook,29.1.26 (found by workmen)
Parish: Leigh-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): 112
Width (mm): edge 42 socket 37
Thickness (mm): socket 37
Weight (g): 230.34
Patina: practically no patina - greeny bronze colour
Surface: smooth, patches of slight encrustment, emerald green & bluish.
Associations: A bronze founder's hoard
Description: The ribs below socket are indistinct. On the other side there are traces of wing ornament. A very slight indentation at A.