Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Leicester Museum,Lent by Mrs. Hocard, 1919
Site: England,Leicestershire,Welby,1875
Parish: Welby
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1875
Length (mm): 100
Width (mm): 30
Edge (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 35
Patina: Green patina the rest golden brown.
Associations: 1 sword (4 pieces); 3 sock. axes; 1 bronze bowl; 1 terminal mounting; 1 ring with loop attachment; 2 cruciform handle attachments; 5 disc-slides; 1 disc mount; 2 fragments sheet bronze.
Description: A rib runs along loop
Publications: T.G.E. Powell, Arch Journ. C.V. 1950, 27-40,Inventaria Archaeologica G.B. 1957, 4th set, No. 24.