Object: Socketed Celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,180-96,Purchased by the Colchester Corp. 1896.,(Trans Essex Arch. Soc. N. S., VI, 173)
Site: England,Essex,Southchurch
Parish: Southchurch
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Associations: Part of a Bronze Founder's Hoard of 62 Pieces, composed of the following: 24 socketed celts; 6 swords; 4 spearheads; 2 knife sockets; 1 sword chape; 1 tang of sickle, also 15 lunmps of metal, 7 fragments of undecisive shapes, 1 socketed gouge, and 1 gouge socket.
Description: 24 Pieces Weighting: Edge 74.42 gms; 88.59 gms; 129.33 gms,Socket: 124.02 gms; 159.46 gms; 95.68 gms; 24.8 gms; 31.89 gms,Socket: 17.71 gms; 31.89 gms; 38.97 gms; 3.54 gms; 21.26 gms,Socket: 10.63 gms; 12.4 gms; 24.8 gms; 17.71 gms; 22.14 gms,Socket: 24.8 gms; 10.63 gms; 21.26 gms; 28.35 gms; 27.47 gms; 35.43 gms