Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,A. Carrington - Northam, N. Devon
Site: England,Northamptonshire,Wellingborough (near) - about 50 years since
Parish: Wellingborough
County: Northamptonshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 105
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 44
Composition: Bronze. Analysis shows a small proportion of lead.
Description: Square opening to socket.
Remarks: Report from the Dyke Acland (FSA), Dalmouth 30.9.22: "It is one of two specimens (alike) only. Saved from a hoard found during excavation of the odite iron ore in that district which lies close to the surface. Great quantities of this ore were sent into Debyshire to be smelted at a certain ironworks. The manager found these two by mere chance and after much enquiring found that the men unloading the ore came across quite a lot of them and thinking they were brass, sold them to a metal dealer for a small sum."