Object: Looped Socket Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Croydon Natural History Society,Eldon House, 2 Lansdowne Rd., Croydon, Surrey
Site: England,Surrey,Chelsham,Beddlestead Green,"Found by workman digging for flints." 1890
Parish: Chelsham
County: Surrey
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1890
Patina: Rough black/green with light green mottle.
Surface: Pitted
Composition: Bronze, coppery.
Other: Length: 4 1/8" = 104.78mm,Width: 1 1/2" = 38.1mm; 1" = 25.4mm,Thickness: 1 1/2" top. = 38.1mm
Associations: Part of hoard 1-8.
Description: Socketed Celt with loop lines to represent wings and slip ridge cast on surface. Cutting edge battered. High casting flash.
Publications: Victoria County History, Surrey, Vol. 1 Page 241.,Proceedings Soc. Ant. of London, Ser. 2, xviii, p. 285 ef-seq.