Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,Evans Collection
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Burwell Fen,June 1862
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1862
Length (mm): 82
Width (mm): 34
Edge (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 33
Weight (g): 142
Patina: Dusty brown patina and green.
Surface: Rough. Thick encrustations of roots and fibres which are brown and green.
Associations: Found with a spearhead, ring, and metal.
Description: Heavy rim round socket, expanding and rounded cutting edge.