Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,H. Mothersole Esq.,Warren House, Roxwell Road,Chelmsford.
Site: England,Essex,Little Baddow
Parish: Little Baddow
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 78
Width (mm): near edge 34.5 socket 34.5
Thickness (mm): socket 32
Weight (g): 105.43
Patina: polished thin dark olive green, showing bronze.
Surface: heavily pitted, & corroded in places.
Associations: found at Little Baddow, Rough Metal (2 pieces) Sickle, 7 Socketed Celts & a Palstave
Description: This had a loop which was set across the side, instead of along it. Only the stumps of the loop remain. Incised decoration.
Publications: Trans. Essex Field Club Vol 2, p.31,Essex Naturalist Vol 16, p.246