Object: Socketed Celt
Classification: Cast
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Bristol Museum,E.1760,Given by Mr. J. Gaythorpe,1902
Site: England,Gloucester,Bristol,Dug out of the River Avon, about 20 feet below the bank of the river when excavating for the River Wall at the time. Mr. F. Slade was constructing new locks at Bristol Docks in 1870.
Discovery context: river
Parish: Bristol
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1870
Length (mm): 126
Width (mm): 39
Edge (mm): 60
Thickness (mm): 44
Weight (g): 586
Other: Width: butt 39mm; centre 35mm; edge 60mm
Publications: Bath Nat. Hist. + Antiq. Field Club., ix. 294
Remarks: Original in the Barrow in Furness Museum? Nothing on Barrow card to indicate version there is original.