Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2452,H. Prigg, 1867
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach Fen,1867
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 88
Width (mm): 37
Edge (mm): 49
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 179
Patina: Greenish-brown patina.
Other: Weight: 179.08 gms
Associations: Hoard Nos. 2451-2489 - see socketed celt No. 2451.
Description: Squarish mouth. Single moulding below collar with 3 pendant ribs. Small hole in side opposite to loop. Blade beaten out at corners leaving side concave.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., pp. 113, 118, Fig. 124,Journ Brit. Arch. Assn., XXXVI, 56 ff.