Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sotheby's Sale,  December 10th 1931,  Lot 150
Site: England, Lincolnshire, Roxby, In November 1882, 18 axeheads (some unused), & cakes of unwrought metal, were found in a field all close together, 4 ft below the surface.
Discovery context: auction
Parish: Roxby
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 920
Width (mm): 44
Thickness (mm): 37
Weight (g): 280
Patina: brownish green
Surface: corroded
Composition: Analysis / Copper   84.85% / Tin 14.25 % / Iron, lead & foreign material    .90% // 100.00%
Other: 3-part, hand-drawn illustration, including cross-section.  With some dimensions.
Associations: 18 axeheads; 3 Copper cakes.
Description: The unwrought metal gives 99.96% pure copper.