Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,presented to Essex Arch. Soc. by Mr W.H. King,(1889.94 Price Cat),(Stick on label:- "Royal Arch. Inst 62")
Site: England,Essex,Leigh
Parish: Leigh-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 111
Width (mm): edge 40.5 socket 41
Thickness (mm): socket 39
Weight (g): 201.5
Patina: some dark green
Surface: very rough & much encrusted all over & corroded light green.
Associations: One of a Bronze Founder's Hoard:- 4 Socketed Celts, Lump of Metal, part of a chisel or gouge socket, Edge of a socketed celt, & part of a spearhead.
Description: The decoration below the 3 bands, is only visible on the side shown & then indistinctly. Varnished all over. A good deal of light earth adheres.