Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,Mr. A. Winship,Museum of Arch. + Ethnology, Cambridge,Dep. 31.1
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Chesterton
Parish: Chesterton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 99
Edge (mm): 50
Weight (g): 250
Patina: Green
Associations: Part of a hoard comprising 13 socketed celts; 8 fragments; 1 spear-head; 1 gouge; 1 ring; 14 lumps of ore.
Description: Dimensions: Length: 98.5mm,Width: edge: a) 50mm; b) 49.5mm,Weight: a) 249.5 gms; b)223 gms.,2 looped and socketed celts according in every particular; obviously from same mould. No ornament. a) only is illustrated overleaf. Cutting edges damaged, especially in b), hence difference in weight.
Publications: Hoard not to be published yet.