Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,Professor Sir Lucas White-King, CSI, LLD, FSA,Late of Roebuck Hall, Co. Dublin,Sod by Auction at Sotheby's,9.11.21,Lot 121
Site: (Labelled),Ireland,Co. Kilkenny,Jerpoint,1878
Discovery context: auction
County: County Kilkenny
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: 1878
Length (mm): 115
Width (mm): butt 42.5
Edge (mm): 60
Thickness (mm): 3.5 to 8.5
Patina: Light green
Surface: A rough casting - Light earth adheres. Other side the same, with a good deal of dark brown bronze showing.
Composition: Copper
Description: Rather crude