Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private,W.J. Hemp Esq. F.S.A.,Minshall, High Wycombe, Bucks,Drawn 11th Oct 1928 L.F.C.
Site: England,Norfolk,Snettisham,Found in the garden of Nicholas Skyleman,1779
Discovery context: gardening 
Parish: Snettisham
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1779
Length (mm): 107
Width (mm): socket 42
Edge (mm): 42
Thickness (mm): socket 41
Weight (g): 234,see transcriber comment
Patina: olive to grey-green, lustrous; red-brown near on face of edge;patches broken through to blue-green core.
Surface: well preserved in parts; sides partially coated with red-brown sandy corrosion; in patches elsewhere.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Weight given as 8.25 ounces - I have converted to grams
Associations: Note preserved with this implement: "This is an ancient Roman Celt, whereof 3 were found in the year 1779 in the grounds of Nicholas Skyleman of Snettisham in the County of Norfolk, Esq., one of which was presented to the British Museum, another he kept for himself, & this third he gave to my father who set a great antiquarian value on the same" (Sgd.) H. BANKS,, Whixley (W.R.Yorks) 17 Sept. 1840. Addressed to T. C. Banks esq., 15 Edwards Square, Kensington (Sir Thomas Christopher banks, 1765-1854)
Description: $ raised ribs on faces, well marked. Edge blunt,\& broken. Socketed squarish with angles rounded. Loop perfectly preserved, smooth and glossy. Ridges of juncture down sides. Deep purple & green staining inside lower part of socket.