Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,A. R. White, Esq, Chaddenwick (or Charnage Farm),Presented to Salisbury Museum in 1921,Acc. No. 33/1921 (at 1972) no. 50.,NB: Considerable confusion over this axe in VCH Wilts, Vol. I, pt. I, 86 - there are 3 different entries for it.
Site: England,Wiltshire,Mere,200 yards NE of Chaddenwick (or Charnage) Farm,1909,Whilst laying a pipe in a field.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1909
Length (mm): 108
Width (mm): 47
Edge (mm): 48
Thickness (mm): 45
Patina: Olive green patina which has come off on lower part.
Surface: Lower part slightly pock marked.
Description: Fine specimen in good condition. Ribs flattened on lower part in antiquity by hammering.
Publications: WAM XL (1917-19) 360,Arch. LXX (1920-2), 140.