Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Municipal Museum, Hull, 115
Site: England,Yorkshire,E. Riding,Everthorpe,Gravel pit at side of Hull & Barnsley line where High Road Bridge crosses it at Everthorpe.,1842
Discovery context: gravel extraction
Parish: Everthorpe
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1842
Length (mm): 95
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 48
Thickness (mm): 40
Weight (g): 227
Patina: Apple green to bronze.
Other: Weight: 226.8 gms
Associations: One of 12 socketed celts + 2 lumps of bronze (originally 16 implements + 2 lumps).
Description: Edge sharp - has been ground. Good condition, except for "blow hole" on side opposite loop.
Publications: Described and figured with complete hoard (as still remaining) in "The Naturalist" p. 236, 1923, by Mr. J. Sheppard.