Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum, deposited by W.C. Wells Esq. 1911. (2362.11)
Site: England, Essex, Grays Thurrock
Parish: Grays
District: Thurrock
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 115
Width (mm): edge 43.5, socket 36.75
Thickness (mm): socket 36
Weight (g): 230.34
Patina: very thin dark green patina on one side only. The other side id mostly dark golden bronze colour.
Surface: smooth. A very thin emerald green encrustment on the unpatinated side.
Associations: One of a bronze Founder's Hoard.
Description: Well modelled & regular. Round socket on three faces bronze shows. but this is black lead colour.