Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford,J. W. Flower
Site: France,brittany,cotes du nord (cotes d'armor),plenee-jugon,la moussaye
Country: France
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 122
Width (mm): 36
Edge (mm): 35
Thickness (mm): 40
Surface: failry well cast and smooth. but a trifle corroded.
Other: Width: edge 35mm; socket 35.5mm,Thickness: socket 40mm
Associations: Part of a hoard of socketed celts said to have numbered over 200.
Description: 2 bosses below socket on each face.
Publications: E. Chantre: Age du Br. III. p.110,J. Evans. Loc cit. p.125,Joseph Dechelette: Manuel d'Archeologie. Vol. II, Appendice I, p. 29,G. de Mortillet. Loc. cit. p.306 (Cf. Mat 1868. p. 24),G. et A. de Mortillet. Musee prehist. 2eme edition. pl. XCVIII. No. 1298