Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection 1927-2691,(C. J. Hegan, Esq.)
Site: England,Oxfordshire,Cowley,Cowley Road, 1882,Leopold Street, found during drainage works on site of Tram stables.
Parish: Cowley
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 155
Width (mm): 52
Edge (mm): 54
Thickness (mm): 44
Weight (g): 688
Patina: Bright turquoise green patina above.
Surface: Rough blue-green oxide badly corroded, below.
Associations: With 9 palstaves.
Description: 3 small horizontal mouldings below plain, flat rim: socket sub-rectangular. Depth of socket 21mm
Publications: E.T. Leeds, Proc. Soc. Antiq. XXVIII (1916), 147-153, fig. 2,Archl. Survey Oxon, Arch. LXXI, 251.