Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,Ex Borlase Collection per Foster Beq.,50.107
Site: England,Cornwall,Falmouth,(said to have been dredged up in the Harbour)
Discovery context: river,dredged
Parish: Falmouth
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 91
Width (mm): 47
Edge (mm): 37
Thickness (mm): 38
Weight (g): 254
Patina: Light and dark green patina - some dust colour. The reground edge is reddy brown close to the green patina (as though it were this colour beneath the green patina) then tarnished metal which in one place looks like tin.
Surface: Rought though shiny. The patina is chipped and knocked.
Description: 3 ribs on each face converging towards a point. Cast marks show. The cutting edge looks as though someone had reground it in modern times, but even then it is not well done or sharp and there are several bites and blunt places.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 100, No catalogue,Foster Bequest 47. Catalogue.