Object: Winged Celt
Classification: Converted to a Hammer
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,Deposited by W. C. Wells Esq. 1911,(2362.11)
Site: England,Essex,Grays Thurrock
Parish: Grays
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 77
Width (mm): 31
Thickness (mm): 16
Weight (g): 294
Patina: Remainder is nearly covered wtih - thin green patina roughly encrusted, with golden bronze showing a good deal.
Surface: Slightly rough. The loop side is almost covered with gravel (encrusted with green patina) + part of this side and the loop are plain dark golden bronze.
Other: Length: 76.5mm,Width: hammer face 28.5mm; butt end 31mm,Thickness: hammer face 15.5mm; wings 33mm + 33 1/4mm; septum 8 1/4mm,Weight: 294.13 gms
Associations: One of a Bronze Founder's Hoard.
Description: The hammer end seems to have been smoothed down, after the edge was broken off, but it does not appear to have been used a great deal as a hammer.