Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,Sothebys, 24.v.21, Lot 307
Site: England
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 127
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 34
Thickness (mm): 38
Weight (g): 291
Patina: A lightish greeny yellow patina with dark bronze showing through.
Surface: Not a very smooth casting, but fairly well preserved. A little pocked on one face. Traces of earth in and around socket and loop.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: edge 34.25mm; socket 31.5mm,Thickness: socket 37.75mm,Weight: 290.58 gms
Description: Edge is unsharpened. Cast marks show plainly.