Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum 2430 UG.
Site: England,Dorset,Portland.
Parish: Portland.
County: Dorset
Country: England
Grid reference: SY 69 72
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 103
Width (mm): 31 across butt
Thickness (mm): across butt 33
Weight (g): 91
Patina: Tin colour except for patches of green encrustment.
Surface: partly quite smooth & partly encrusted.
Other: 2 cross section drawings of socketed axe on reverse, listed as inaccurate.,Large portion of edge and blade missing, loop is intact, centred just below mouth of socket.
Description: Faulted blade with a corner broken off; this fracture looks modern. The remaining part of the cutting edge is very sharp, having been ground in recent times. The faces of the blade each have three well defined ribs which terminate in round terminals,The side faces each of one rib,The surface of the metal appears to have been worked over with tin, and the section revealed by the recent grinding of the fracture does not show the normal golden bronze colour.
Remarks: Inacc.,CI