Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Horniman Museum,Forest Hill, SE.,bought from the Backhouse collection
Site: Ireland,Co Down
County: County Down
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 65
Width (mm): socket 34
Edge (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): socket 28
Weight (g): 99.22
Patina: no patina
Surface: fairly smooth, dark brown colour.
Description: very well preserved
Remarks: Recalls Nordic type of M. F. Spreckhop, Hortfunde V, [...]. 6, 1, 3; [...]. 9, 10; Broholm Danmarks [...] IV, 72-3, pt16, 93 [...] Sweden Antiquities [...] 1125, 1129, a are less simple.