Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell (Southend on Sea),276/10
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): 88
Width (mm): edge 39 socket 36.5
Thickness (mm): socket 34
Weight (g): 184.27
Patina: thin dull light green, dark golden bronze shows.
Surface: badly corroded at edge on other side.
Associations: A bronze founder's hoard
Description: A good deal of thick encrustment & in this is a piece of knife or dagger blade at A. Surface hole at B. Loop is broken.