Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,C.H. Grinling, Esq.,17 Rectory Place, Woolwich, SE 18,(1920),Obtained from Joseph Fels, Esq. owner of Basildon Farm.
Site: England,Essex,Billericay,Basildon Farm,1909
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Billericay
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1909
Length (mm): 95
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 35
Thickness (mm): 36
Weight (g): 163
Patina: Dull light bluish green patina.
Surface: Rather rough and heavily encrusted. A good deal of clayish earth in socket and one side.
Other: Weight: 163.01 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard consisting of 9 s. celts, a spear head, 2 gouges, portion of knife, etc. A socketed celt and an equal weight of rough ore now in the Museum of the Royal Academy of Literature, History, and Antiquities, Stockholm.