Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection 1923, Colonel Francis R. Twemlow DSO. J.J. FSA. Peatswood (Staffs), Market Drayton.
Site: England, Shropshire, Market Drayton, Broomhall Grange Farm, near Shropshire bank of R. Tern, between Hinsley Mill & Shifford's Bridge, About 1913. by an estate man, about 3 feet down, while digging drain, in a hollow which had the appearance of being an old watercourse.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Market Drayton
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1913
Length (mm): 98
Width (mm): edge 51, socket 33
Thickness (mm): socket 32
Weight (g): 166.55
Patina: patches of patina black & red brown
Surface: dull golden bronze. fairly smooth. pitted & worn in parts.
Description: 3 indistinct raised lines ending in pellets, these are longer on other face. Edge sharp & fine. apparently reground slightly (anciently). Cast marks. smoothed down.