Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,presented to Essex Arch. Soc. by Mr W.H. King,(1889.94 Price Cat),(Stick on label:- "Royal Arch. Inst 62")
Site: England,Essex,Leigh
Parish: Leigh-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 108
Width (mm): edge 45.5 socket 40
Thickness (mm): socket 39.5
Weight (g): 304
Patina: sea green on one side - on the other the patina is nearly covered with a rough, green encrustment.
Surface: on one side, fairly smooth & a little pitted. Traces of light earth. (Varnished all over)
Associations: One of a Bronze Founder's Hoard:- 4 Socketed Celts, Lump of Metal, part of a chisel or gouge socket, Edge of a Socketed Celt, & part of a spearhead.
Description: Part of a socket rim, embedded with other metal in the socket of this celt.,The decoration is very faint & encrusted over on other side. Except for the small hole thro' loop, it is solid, as though from a faulty mould. Cast marks are most prominent!