Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell (Southendon Sea),276/1
Site: England,Essex,Leigh,Fleming Avenue,Prittle Brook,29.1.26 (found by workmen)
Parish: Leigh-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): 122
Width (mm): edge 41 socket 38
Thickness (mm): socket 39
Weight (g): 347.28
Patina: very thin olive green & dark bronze
Surface: smooth, a few patches of slight encrustment.
Associations: A bronze founder's hoard
Description: Embedded in socket with encrustment, it is part of a socketed celt & portion of a blade.