Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum , 65, 4, 18, 5, given by H. Christy Esq. 1865, formerly in the collection of Mr. Lichfield. (on loan to Nat Maritime Museum until 1986)
Site: England, near Swaffham,, Norfolk (Cambridgeshire) -assumed by Evans. The dimensions and typology of this acts match closely that depicted by Cl.W. winter, in 1849 - BM add.Ms 23060, f, 207 - this was 'found near Swaffham, in 1849', probably as part of an older collection
Parish: Swaffham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 104
Width (mm): 33
Edge (mm): 48
Thickness (mm): 33
Weight (g): 192.11
Surface: bronze with brown stains.  Socket flaked
Other: In "Site": notation after Cambridgeshire to see corrected card.,  Bottom right corner: "DF(s) Swaffham."
Description: Raised decoration
Publications: Evans, 1881, p.  127, fig 145