Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,purchased by the Corporation, 1911, (2347.11)
Site: England,Essex,Dovercourt
Parish: Dovercourt
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 90.5
Width (mm): edge 46.5, socket 30.5
Thickness (mm): socket 29
Weight (g): 124.02
Patina: Olive green, thin patina on one side. On the other a lighter shade.
Surface: smooth, very slightly pitted. Traces of earth all over the outside & in the socket.
Associations: Bronze Founder's hoard of 15 Celts - nearby an earthernware utensil (with 3 pierced lugs),was found.