Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Peabody Museum,Harvard University,Cambridge, Mass.,3340,Purchased 1868,collected by G. de Mortillet
Site: France,rhone-alpes,haute savoie,reignier-esery
Country: France
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 122
Width (mm): 39
Edge (mm): 49
Thickness (mm): 38
Patina: dark green, except on face, which shows original bronze, nearly all over on that side of the specimen.
Surface: smooth and polished
Other: Width: edge 49mm; socket 39mm,Thickness: socket 38mm
Associations: One of a hoard weighing 5 kilograms.
Publications: Dechelette, J.: Manuel d'Archeologie, ii, App. i. 94,Chantre, E.: Age du Bronze, iii. 116, 188,de Mortillet, G.: Cachettes de l'Age du Bronze en France [Bull. de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris (1894) 306],Revon, L.: La Haute-Savoie Avant les Romaines [Rev. Savoisienne, 1876, 47]