Object: Socketed hammer
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,151.94,Presented to Essex Arch. Soc. by Lord Rockwood, 1894,Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S., VI, 172)
Site: England,Essex,Hatfield Broad Oak
Parish: Hatfield Broad Oak
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 52
Width (mm): 24
Thickness (mm): 19
Weight (g): 70
Patina: Light greyish green
Surface: Smooth. Partly covered with a light coloured soil.
Other: Width: socket 24mm; where broken 22mm,Thickness: socket 19mm; broken end 15mm,Weight: 70.4 gms
Associations: One of a Bronze Founder's Hoard of 16 socketed celts, 20 Lumps of rough metal, 14 Pieces of socketed celts; 14 small pieces of an earthenware pot; 4 pieces of rim of burial urn, a pair of Burial Urn Handles; 3 spearheads, 1 chape, and part of a socketed tool.
Publications: Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S., vi., 172
Remarks: JCM