Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Whitby Museum
Site: England,Yorkshire,near Whitby
Parish: Whitby
County: North Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 85
Width (mm): 28
Edge (mm): 47
Weight (g): 184
Patina: Red-brown patina with large green patches, especially near the top.
Surface: Rough, but rubbed smooth near cutting edge, showing bronze colour of metal.
Other: Length: 84.5mm,Width: 47mm; socket exterior 38.5mm; int. 27.5mm
Description: Slight groove round top of socket. In casting ridge formed above handle.
Publications: Whitby LIt. + Phil. Soc., 95th report (26.10.17), page 60, fig. 8, plate II