Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2459,H. Prigg, 1867
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Burwell,Reach Fen
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 86
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 32
Weight (g): 155
Patina: Brown
Other: Weight: 154.78 gms
Associations: Hoard, Nos. 2451-2489: See Socketed Celt No. 2451.
Description: Squarish socket: rim split on one face; large flaw-hole below.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., pp. 112-3,Journ. Brit. Arch. Assn. XXXVI, 56, ff.