Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum. No 840. 12/04.
Site: England, Essex, Shoebury, 1904
Parish: Shoebury
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1904
Length (mm): 75
Width (mm): edge 45
Thickness (mm): socket 37
Weight (g): 124.02
Patina: a light bluish green patina shows beneath the clay.
Surface: smooth. almost covered with clay or mud.
Associations: From a Bronze Founder's Hoard consisting of lumps of copper + 2 pieces of metal which may be strapping from a Bronze shield.
Description: The edge is rather crumbly.