Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum, 151.94,Presented to Essex Arch. Soc. by Lord Rookwood, 1894,(Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S., VI, 172)
Site: England,Essex,Hatfield Broad Oak
Parish: Hatfield Broad Oak
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 90
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 41
Thickness (mm): 36
Weight (g): 230
Patina: Dull grey
Surface: Smooth. Earth inside socket and traces outside.
Other: Weight: 230.34 gms
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 an earthenware pot, 4 pieces of rim of burial urn, a pair of burial urn handles, 3 spearheads, 1 chape, + part of a socketed tool.
Description: Well preserved. Raised decoration.
Publications: Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S., VI, 172