Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Feb 1939,On loan to Littlehampton Museum
Site: England,Sussex,Yapton,Flansham
Parish: Yapton
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 76
Width (mm): 45
Weight (g): 128
Patina: Patchy light green
Surface: Fairly smooth
Associations: 1 socketed celt and 5 fragments; 2 socketed gouges + 1 fragment; 1 socketed knife fragment; 3 sword fragments; 1 ferrule and 1 fragment; 1 spearhead VI fragment; 1 copper cake + 25 metal lumps.
Description: Cutting edge chipped and blunted. Faces quite plain without ribs. Prominent mould marks. Traces of ?wood at inner end of socket. Spaces between loop and side filled with encrustment.
Publications: Sussex Notes and Queries, VII, 78, (figured).