Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Peabody Museum,Harvard University,Cambridge, Mass.,3326,Received by purchase 1868,collected by G. de Mortillet
Site: France,brittany,cotes du nord (cotes d'armor),plenee-jugon,la moussaye
Country: France
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 124
Width (mm): 35
Edge (mm): 35
Thickness (mm): 38
Patina: dark, with some hardened earth and bright coloured green
Surface: uneven
Other: Width: edge 35mm; socket 35mm,Thickness: socket 38mm
Associations: One of a hoard of more than 200
Description: Edge is roughly finished: the specimen is entirely filled with earth
Publications: Evans, J.: Anc.Br. Impl., 115, 116, 445, 477,Dechelette, J.: Manuel d'Archeologie, ii, App. i, 29,Chantre, E.: Age du Bronze, iii, 110,de Mortillet, G.: Cachettes de l'Age du Bronze en France [Bull. de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris (1894) 306],Materiaux (1868) 24,de Mortillet, G et A: Musee Prehist. 2nd Ed., Pl. XCVIII, No. 1298.