Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Municipal Museum Hull, 118
Site: England,Yorkshire,E. Riding,Everthorpe,Gravel pit at side of Hull & 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): 85
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 46
Thickness (mm): 36
Weight (g): 184
Patina: Original patina green, but a large portion of surface has been filed.
Other: Weight: 184.27 gms
Associations: One of 12 socketed celts + 2 lumps of bronze (originally 16 implements + 2 lumps).
Description: Well formed and sharp edge.
Publications: Described and figured with complete hoard (as still remaining) in "The Naturalist", p. 236, 1923, by Mr. J. Sheppard.