Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2646,J. W[arren]
Site: England,Norfolk, S.,Carleton Rode,1844
Parish: Carleton-rode
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1844
Length (mm): 106
Width (mm): 40
Edge (mm): 48
Thickness (mm): 43
Weight (g): 256
Patina: Green patina.
Other: Weight: 255.6 gms
Associations: Hoard comprising palstaves, 2 winged celts, socketed celts, chisels, socketed chisel, socketed hammer, 4 gouges, scrap metal.
Description: Squarish mouth - single moulding below collar. Rom damaged. Square section. Traces of 6 vertical ribs on one side. Flaw-holes on both sides.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., Hoard No. 78, pp. 78, 94, 113, 119, 121, 122, 133, 167, 171, 173, 175, 178, 424, 462, 467, and references,Smith's Coll. Ant. I, 105,Arch. Journ. II. 80,Arch Assn. Journ., I, 151,Arch. XXXI, 494,VCH. Norfolk, I (1901), 268-9.