Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2627,Medhurst Collection
Site: England,Dorset?,Blandford?
Parish: Blandford
County: Dorset
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 103
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 44
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 120
Surface: Some oxide.
Other: Weight: 120.10 gms
Associations: Evans (op. cit) surmises that these celts may be part of a large hoard from Blandford part of which is in the British Museum.
Description: Thin tinny lead-coloured bronze. Irregular oblong mouth. One thin median rib on each face. Section hexagonal.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 127