Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: John Holmes Collection, City Art Gallery, Leeds,Cat. No. 218
Site: England,Yorkshire,Leeds,Found on road, at Carr Moor Side going from Beaston to Morley, Hunslet, Leeds.,1887
Parish: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SE 29 30
Year of discovery: 1887
Length (mm): 123
Width (mm): 46
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 40
Weight (g): 332
Patina: Beautiful apple green patina, with blue incrustation in places.
Associations: Found with 12 or 14 others.
Description: Below moulded socket, raised triangular ornament extending some distance down the blade. This ornament is very similar to that on a looped palstave found in same hoard.