Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology + Ethnology, Cambridge
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach Fen,1862
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1862
Length (mm): 91
Width (mm): 41
Edge (mm): 51
Thickness (mm): 30
Weight (g): 175
Patina: Dark green patina, brown, and metal showing through slightly. Corroded pits are pink. The shallower ones are whitish green.
Surface: Fairly smooth except for very deep pits where corroded. Corroded into a hole one side.
Associations: Found with 7 lumps of metal.
Description: One moulding below the rim. Broken at the base. Cutting edge is chipped.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes, 83, Catalogue is lost.,Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue, 1884, 139,B