Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum,donor H. R. Corbet, Esq.
Site: England,Shropshire,Childs Ercall,1860
Parish: Childs Ercall
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1860
Length (mm): 96
Width (mm): 41
Edge (mm): 47
Thickness (mm): 41
Weight (g): 216
Patina: Brownish black
Surface: Smooth and shiny
Other: Weight: 216.15 gms
Associations: May have been found with 2 broken spearheads from same parish and from this donor.
Description: Excellently preserved.
Publications: Presumably the "bronze palstave" mentioned by Mr. R. Ll. Kenyon in his "Pre-historic Shropshire",Shrops Arch. Trans. IV (2nd S.), p. 279,Anden, Vic. Co His. Shrops. I, p. 202
Remarks: Shrewsbury Museum Donations Book I (MS) records that on July 29, 1886, H. Reg. Corbet, Esq. of Adderley, presented "1 Bronze Roman Celt, Found in the parish of Child's Ercall, Salop., 1858" and "1 Roman Bronze Spear or Banner head found at the same place."