Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ellesmere Museum,Pres. by W. N. Monck, Esq.,Found on Glebe Farm and taken to Rev. Walter Moore, then Rector of Hordley. From him it passed to his son Mr. Charles Moore of The Hollies, Ellesmere, at whose death in 1920 it was given to the Museum by his executor, Mr. Walter Nugent Monck.
Site: England,Shropshire,Hordley,The Glebe Farm
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Hordley
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 112
Width (mm): 46
Edge (mm): 56
Thickness (mm): 40
Weight (g): 363
Patina: Blackish brown patina chipped off in places. A few small green stains near edge.
Surface: On deep dent and corner of edge rubbed.
Publications: M. W. Kenyon, Shrops. Arch. Trans. IV (2nd, 1892), p. 280,Anden, Vic. Co. Hist. Shrops, I., 202 (under "Bagley","Times", 14 March 1921.