Object: Socketed Celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,C.H. Grinling, Esq.,17 Rectory Place, Woolwich, Se 18 (1920),Obtained from Mr. Joseph Fels, the owner of Basildon Farm.
Site: England,Essex,Billericay,Basildon Farm,1909
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Billericay
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1909
Length (mm): 86
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 53
Thickness (mm): 21
Weight (g): 183
Patina: Dull various shades of green patina.
Surface: Smooth - slightly encrusted. Traces of light coloured earth, nearly all over one side.
Associations: Part of a hoard consisting of 9 s. celts, a spear head, 2 gouges, portion of knife, etc. A socketed celt and an equal weight of rough ore now in the Museum of the Royal Academy of Literature, History, and Antiquities, Stockholm.