Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Municipal Museum Hull 121
Site: England,Yorkshire,E. Riding,Everthorpe,Gravel Pit at side of Hull and Barnsley line where High Road Bridge crosses it at Everthorpe.,1842
Discovery context: gravel extraction
Parish: Everthorpe
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1842
Length (mm): 90
Width (mm): 45
Edge (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 41
Weight (g): 198
Patina: Dull green to bronze.
Other: Weight: 198.45 gms
Associations: One of 12 socketed celts + 12 lumps of bronze (originally 16 implements + 2 lumps).
Description: Edge sharp and seems to have been hammered. Faces ornamented. Perfect except for crack in socket rim and small blow hole on one face.
Publications: Described and figured with complete hoard (as still remaining) in "The Naturalist" p. 236, 1923, by Mr. J. Sheppard.