Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2613,Greg Collection, 1895
Site: England,Essex,Akesden (near Bishop Stortford)
Parish: Arkesden
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 77
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 38
Thickness (mm): 30
Weight (g): 101
Patina: Glossy patina, very dark leaden green.
Other: Weight: 100.90 gms
Description: Squarish mouth. 3 mouldings below collar.
Remarks: Nothing to show whether this was part of the Arkesden Hoard, found at Highfield Chardwell Farm 1872 (C. Fox, Arch. Cambridge Region, No. 21, p. 324, etc.)