Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Brentford Public Library, Layton Collection, 01205,L. Mus.?
Site: England,Greater London,Chiswick,Strand-on-Green (near),Thames
Discovery context: river
Parish: Chiswick
County: Greater London
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 126
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 61
Thickness (mm): 39
Patina: No patina
Surface: Dark golden bronze.
Other: Width: blade 60.5mm; socket 38mm
Description: Edge burred at left corner and cracked near right corner. Raised ornament. Filed in places. Slightly crushed out of shape at socket.
Publications: Evans, A. B. Imps, p. 126, Fig. 143, p. 127,Proc. Soc. of Antiq., 2nd ser, V, 428, p. 400,Ibid., VI, 157
Remarks: Label: Strand on Green, near Thames,Stated in Proc. Soc. of Antiq. 2nd ser, vi, 157, to have been found 100 yards below Railway Bridge, leading from Barnes to Chiswick, on the Middlesex side.,Inacc.