Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell (Southend on Sea),276/12
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): 72
Width (mm): edge 35 socket 32
Thickness (mm): socket 31
Weight (g): 106.31
Patina: green & browny green.
Surface: smooth. Encrusted from inside edge, up & past hole in side.
Associations: A bronze founder's hoard
Description: 2 fairly long ribs in socket.,Traces of wing shaped ornament, raised with a hollow each side of the raised ribbing. This shows more on other side.