Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Municipal Museum, Hull, 112
Site: England,Yorkshire,E. Riding,Everthorpe,Gravel pit at side of Hull and 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): 93
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 44
Thickness (mm): 38
Weight (g): 198
Patina: Apple. green to brown
Other: Weight: 198.45 gms
Associations: One of 12 socketed celts and 2 lumps of bronze (originally 16 implements + 2 lumps).
Description: Excellent condition. Edge ground and very sharp.
Publications: Described and figured with complete hoard (as still remaining) in "The Naturalist" p. 236, 1923, by Mr. J. Sheppard.