Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mr. Frank Williams, 18 Mary's Square, a scrap metal merchant in Aylesbury (May 1927)
Site: England,Buckinghamshire,Aston Clinton?,Uncertain,Bought among waste metal from Aston Clinton; probably found in that neighborhood.
Parish: Aston Clinton
County: Buckinghamshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 106
Width (mm): 36
Edge (mm): 60
Thickness (mm): 38
Weight (g): 275
Surface: "No sign of corrosion or patina." (E. Hollis)
Other: Weight: 4250 grains = 275.40 gms
Associations: History Uncertain.
Description: Recurved edge. 3 indistinct ribs down one face; the other 2 appear to terminate in pellets; the reverse is plain.
Remarks: Aston Clinton is on the Icknield Way.