Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge.,(G. Roots Collection).
Site: Ireland
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 92
Width (mm): socket 42.5
Edge (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): socket 41
Weight (g): 278
Patina: many shades of brown patina with metal showing through slightly.
Surface: fairly smooth
Description: A round socket with a bold beading encircling it, under which is cut a bevelled groove, with 3 lines of beading immediately below it. Below this is a very definite or even octagonal faceting to widely expanding edges.
Publications: Foster Bequest Catalogue 40.,Prehistoric Bronzes 77. catalogue is lost.