Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2629
Site: England,Essex,Barking,Barking Marshes
Parish: Barking
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1862
Length (mm): 93
Width (mm): 37
Edge (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 254
Patina: Green patina.
Surface: Patch of dark blue ozide on one face.
Other: Weight: 254.30 gms
Associations: From a hoard (Evans, op. cit.)
Description: Squarish mouth. Fine moulding below bevelled collar. Vestigal wings on faces.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 110