Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Saffron Walden Museum,CLXXIV,Given by Joseph Clarke
Site: Enfland,Essex,Arkesden,Near Chardwell Farm,while land-draining, 1872
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Arkesden
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 100
Width (mm): 36
Edge (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 37
Weight (g): 202
Patina: Good patina.
Surface: Slightly pitted.
Other: Weight: 202.2 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard of about 60 pieces.
Description: Edge chipped; casting rib ground down.
Publications: Trans. Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1873, Illustrations.