Object: Socketed Gouge
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,C.H. Grinling, Esq.,17 Rectory Place, Woolrich, SE 18,1920,Obtained from Mr. Joseph Fels, the owner of Basildon Farm.
Site: England,Essex,Billericay,Basildon Farm,1909
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Billericay
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1909
Length (mm): 80
Width (mm): 14
Edge (mm): 15
Thickness (mm): 15
Weight (g): 46
Patina: Dull light green patina.
Surface: Roughish. Traces of earth all over.
Other: Width: edge 15mm; socket 14mm,Thickness: socket 15mm,Weight: 46.05 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard consisting of a9 s. celts, a spear head, 2 gouges, portion of a knife, etc. and a socketed celt and an equal weight of rough ore. Now in the Museum of the Royal Academy of  Literature, History, and Antiquities, Stockholn