Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Herts County Museum, St. Albans,Lent by Capt. J. H. Ball, RAF,66
Site: England,Hertfordshire,Hitchin
Parish: Hitchin
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 115
Width (mm): 34
Edge (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 34
Weight (g): 198
Patina: On one side, thick olive green. The other is more cleaned showing golden bronze.
Surface: Smooth, except for slight patches of encrustment on the cleaned side
Other: Length: 114.5mm,Width: edge 49.5mm; socket 34mm,Thickness: socket 33.5mm