Object: Socketed Gouge
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge, Foster Bequest No. 159.
Site: Ireland, Down, Glastry
Parish: Glastry
County: County Antrim
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 90
Width (mm): edge 16.5; socket 18
Thickness (mm): socket 19
Weight (g): 40
Patina: shades of green & brown
Surface: slightly rough. hammer marks showing in longitudinal lines & ridges
Description: Very thin at one part of the socket so that it has bent & broken through.
Publications: Foster Bequest 49b catalogue, Prehistoric Bronzes 110b. The catalogue is lost.