Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum (151.94),Presented to Essex Arch. Soc. by Lord Rookwood, 1894,(Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. NS, VI, 172)
Site: England,Essex,Hatfield Broad Oak
Parish: Hatfield Broad Oak
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 72
Width (mm): 33
Edge (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 31
Weight (g): 113
Patina: Pale green with patches of dark green + grey.
Surface: Smooth. Traces of sand.
Other: Length: 71.5mm,Thickness: socket 30.5mm
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 earthenware pot, 4 pieces of rim of burial urn, a pair of burial urn handles, 3 spearheads, 1 chape and part of a socketed tool.
Description: In good condition. Raised decoration.
Publications: Trans. Essex. Arch. Soc. N. S., 172