Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Feb 1939, On loan to Littlehampton Museum
Site: England, Sussex, Yapton, Flansham
Parish: Yapton
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 81
Width (mm): 48
Weight (g): 184
Patina: greyish-green and brown
Surface: smooth
Associations: 1 socketed celt & 5 fragments; 2 socketed gouges & 1 fragment; 1 socketed knife fragment; 3 sword fragments; 1 ferrule & 1 fragment; 1 spearhead VI fragment; 1 copper cake & 25 metal lumps.
Description: Edge sharp on the centre, blunt at each end. Marks of filing on both faces. Hollow end slightly crushed; Mouth of socket broken off
Publications: Sussex Notes & Queries VII. 78