Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2707
Site: England,Berkshire,Wallingford,1871
Parish: Wallingford
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 118
Width (mm): 34
Edge (mm): 53
Weight (g): 219
Patina: Mottled brown patina.
Other: Width: edge 53mm; socket 34 x 32mm,Weight: 219.01 gms
Associations: Small hoard, Nos. 2707-11, comprising this celt, gouge, socketed knife, tanged chisel, and V-notched razor.
Description: Deep collar. Octagonal section below.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, pp. 128 (Fig. 150), 167, 206, 219, 457, 462, 466, Hoard No. 60.,Proc. Soc. Antiq. IV (2) 303?,Leeds, Antiquity, II, 352,Oxford County Archaeological Survey, p. 264, with references.