Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell (Southend-on-Sea),From Collection of Mr. W. Pisey of Rayleigh,Presented by Mr. F. Wiseman, Paglesham, Jany 1934,192/2
Site: England,Essex,Thundersley
Parish: Thundersley
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 84
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 42
Thickness (mm): 38
Weight (g): 152
Patina: Medium olive green, mottled. Patina is corroded round the edge.
Surface: Smooth
Other: Width: edge 42mm; socket 37.5mm,Weight: 152.38 gms
Associations: From a bronze founder's hoard.
Description: A good deal cracked at socket. Ribs in socket extend about 3 parts down.
Publications: Benton's History of the Rockford Hundred, p. 771.