Object: Socketed Celt
Classification: Socketed Celt (Irish Type)
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2666,W. P. Hooper Ross.
Site: Wales,Monmouth,Usk,Castle Hill
County: Monmouthshire
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 80
Width (mm): 40
Edge (mm): 62
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 242
Patina: Brown patina.
Other: Weight: 242.21 gms
Description: Oval mouth, with plain bevelled rim. Spatulate blade. Inside socket 2 median ribs on faces running from 26mm below rim to base of socket.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 114, Fig. 119.