Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2619
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Bottisham,Bottisham Lode,1868
Parish: Bottisham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1868
Length (mm): 76
Width (mm): 40
Edge (mm): 46
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 209
Patina: Green patina, largely flaked off.
Other: Weight: 208.63 gms
Associations: Found with others in a hoard - See also Mos. 2618, 2620.
Description: The blade of a smaller socketed celt is embedded with socket and projects from mouth.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 112, may refer to this (3 inches)