Object: Socketed Celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,(151.94),presented to Essex Arch. Soc. by Lord Rookwood, 1894.,(Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S. VI. 172)
Site: England,Essex,Hatfield Broad Oak
Parish: Hatfield Broad Oak
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Patina: mostly medium green
Surface: smooth generally
Associations: One of a Bronze Founder's Hoard of 16 Socketed Celts & 20 Lumps of Rough Metal also 14 pieces of socketed celts & 14 small pieces of an earthenware pot, 4 pieces of Rim of Burial Urn, a pair of Burial Urn Handles, 3 Spearheads, 1 Chape & part of a Socketed Tool.
Description: 14 Fragments, weighing:-,92.13 gms. Socket complete,122.24 gms, Socket complete,130.56 gms, Socket complete,60 gms, part of socket,70.4 gms, part of socket,77.08 gms, part of socket,70.44 gms, part of socket,79.28 gms, Edge end of celt, edge missing,86.82 gms, Edge only,149.71 gms, Edge only,189.59 gms, Edge only,147.06 gms, Edge only,118.7 gms, Edge only,184.71 gms, Edge only