Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum, presented Geo Clapham Esq. 1846, Price Cat. 1878, Old Mus. Cat. No 223.
Site: England, Essex, Rivenhall
Parish: Rivenhall
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 101
Width (mm): edge 44, socket 39.5
Thickness (mm): socket 39
Weight (g): 233.88
Patina: dark olive green patina at one time covered this celt. this has nearly all been cleaned off & now polished golden bronze colour with remains of patina.
Surface: smooth, but heavily pocked near the edge - the surface round this is reddish.
Publications: Same type as Evans fig 116.