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): 105.5
Width (mm): edge 56, socket 42
Thickness (mm): socket 38
Weight (g): 287.04
Patina: polished dark green patina on one side. Patina on other side is duller & rougher with slight encrustment near edge.
Surface: fairly smooth. golden bronze near edge (on one side) where patina is thin.
Associations: One of a bronze Founder's Hoard.
Description: Sand in socket & traces of sand on blade.