Object: Sickle
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell (Southend on Sea),276/96 and 276/106
Site: England,Essex,Leigh,Fleming Avenue,Prittle Brook,29.1.26,Found by workmen
Parish: Leigh-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): 44
Width (mm): 32
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 12
Patina: A) Dark green; b) Thin light green, with bronze showing.
Surface: A) Smooth. Earth encrusted. B) Smooth. Encrusted (lighter than the patina in colour)
Other: Length: A 44mm; B 22mm,Width: A) 32mm; B) 32mm,Thickness: A) 4.5mm; B) 2mm; 11.5mm,Weight: A) 12.4 gms; B) 21.26 gms
Associations: A founder's hoard.
Publications: Sir. C. Fox, Arch Bambriensis, Dec. 1941., p. 140, Nos. 6,7, and (7) Pl. II,Antiq. Journ, 1926, p. 309