Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Saffron Walden Museum,CLXXVII,Given by Joseph Clarke
Site: England,Essex,Arkesden,near Chardwell Farm,while land-draining, 1872
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Arkesden
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1872
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): 74
Patina: With small patches of green patina.
Surface: Bright
Other: Weight: 73.5 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard of about 60 pieces.
Description: Fracture granular
Publications: Trans. Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1873, Illustrations.