Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Public Museum, Gloucester
Site: England,Goucestershire,Bourton-on-the-Water,400 ft. S. of Slaughter Bridge, E. of Fosse Way, near Lower Slaughter, near gravel pit containing Bronze Age Pits (1932),Found while ploughing 1907.
Parish: Bourton-on-the-water
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1907
Length (mm): 117
Width (mm): 50
Edge (mm): 59
Thickness (mm): 44
Patina: Greenish-brown patina.
Surface: Smooth
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Hoard of eight socketed celts.
Description: Good condition; blade blunted and notched; rather poor casting with fragments of waste metal remaining. Three ridges on each side of socket.
Publications: Ant. Journ., XV, p. 196, fig.,XXI, 150