Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum, 70.11-26.5,Presented by Lord Stanley of Alderley, 1870
Site: Wales,Gwynedd,Holyhead Mountain,Ty Mawr,1832
Parish: Holyhead Mountain
County: Isle Of Anglesey
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: 1832
Length (mm): 110
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 30
Weight (g): 175
Patina: Peacock green patina
Surface: Much corroded. Showing metal on left facet on face; light brownish green on reverse.
Other: Weight: 175.35 gms
Associations: Found with several rings, amber beads, and an armley, also 2 spearheads, a knife, a chisel and rivet.
Description: Point of edge broken and worn near centre. Socket slopes back.Octagonal below socket.
Publications: Evans, p. 129, p. 466 "Said to have been found in a box.",Arch Journ, Vol. XXIV, p. 254, and plate,Arch. Vol. XXVI, p. 483
Remarks: Inacc.