Object: Socketed Celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private collection, C.H. Grinling Esq., 17 Rectory Place. Woolwich SE.18. (1920), Obtained from Joseph Fels Esq. owner of Basildon Farm.
Site: England, Essex, Billericay, Basildon Farm, 1909
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Billericay
County: Essex
Country: England
Grid reference: 11
Year of discovery: 1909
Length (mm): 48
Width (mm): 35
Thickness (mm): 33
Weight (g): 54.95
Patina: dull light + med. green
Surface: smooth. some claylike earth adheres to inside of this ring.
Associations: Part of a hoard consisting of 9 socketed celts. a spear head. 2 gouges. portion of a knife etc. + a socketed Celt now in the Museum of the Royal Academy of Literature. History + Antiquities. Stockholm. + an equal weight of rough ore.
Description: Ring shaped object shaped to a sort of edge on one side.