Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,C.H. Grimling, Esq.,17 Rectory Place, Woolwich, Se 18,(1920),Obtained from Joseph Fels, Esq. owner of Basildon Farm
Site: England,Essex,Billericay,Basildon Farm,1909
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Billericay
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1909
Length (mm): 80
Width (mm): 33
Edge (mm): 37
Thickness (mm): 30
Weight (g): 150
Patina: Light and greyish green patina dark bronze slightly visible.
Surface: Rather rough. Much encrusted - traces of light coloured earth in socket.
Other: Weight: 149.83 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard consisting of 9 s. celts, a spear head, 2 gouges, portion of knife, etc. A socketed celt and an equal weight of rough ore now in the Museum of the Royal Academy of Literature, History, and Antiquities, Stockholm.