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): 91
Width (mm): 39
Edge (mm): 41
Thickness (mm): 36
Patina: Green patina rubbed in large patches showing green brown metal.
Surface: One side thickly pitted, crusted at edge, rust colour in spots. A little mud in socket.
Associations: Hoard of about 200 pieces.
Description: Edge is damaged. One side slightly dented. Side of socket inside curve of loop is pierced.
Publications: T.D. Kendrick. The Arch of the Channel Islands, Vol. I, p. 62. pl. VII (1928 ed).