Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Municipal Museum, Hull, 113
Site: England,Yorkshire,E. Riding,Everthorpe,Gravel pit at side of Hull & Barnsley line where High Road Bridge crosses it at Everthorpe.,1842
Discovery context: gravel extraction
Parish: Everthorpe
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1842
Length (mm): 92
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 46
Thickness (mm): 38
Weight (g): 198
Patina: Apple green to brass.
Other: Weight: 198.45 gms
Associations: One of 12 socketed celts and 2 lumps of bronze (originally 16 implements + 2 lumps).
Description: Excellent condition. Sharp edge - and has been ground.
Publications: Described + figured with complete hoard (as still remaining) in "The Naturalist", p. 236, 1923 by Mr. J. Sheppard.