Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Guille Alles Museum, Guernsey,Gaudion Collection
Site: Channel Islands,Alderney,Longy (Longis) Common,1832
Parish: Longy Common
County: Guernsey
Country: Channel Islands
Year of discovery: 1832
Length (mm): 69
Width (mm): 31
Edge (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): 27
Patina: Green grey, much brighter on one side. Showing very dark metal where rubbed.
Other: Date: Note that dates for Longis Common implements fluctuate between 1932 and 1832 - not sure which is correct.
Description: Edge sharp
Publications: T.D. Kendrick, The Arch. of the Channel Islands, Vol. I, p. 62, pl. VII (1928 ed)