Object: Socketed Knife
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell (Southend-on-Sea),276/61
Site: England,Essex,Leigh,Flemming Avenue,Prittle Brook,29.1.16,(found by workman
Parish: Leigh-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): 74
Width (mm): blade 19,socket 28
Thickness (mm): blade 4,socket 18.5
Weight (g): 53.15
Patina: very thin, green; dark golden bronze shows
Surface: smooth, encrusted blue and green on other side
Other: Description: I suspect it should be "socketed" or "socket" rather than "socked".
Associations: A Bronze Founder's Hoard
Description: 2 rivet holes. Socked edge is chipped.,see transcriber comment
Remarks: There are 6 e.g.s in all