Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge,38 Dungiven, 28, 154 (on label)
Site: Ireland,Londonderry,Dungiven
Parish: Dungiven
County: County Londonderry
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 118
Width (mm): socket 55
Edge (mm): 77
Thickness (mm): 44.5
Weight (g): 560
Patina: Shades of green to brown patina
Surface: Lines & besides not very even
Description: Socket halfway between oval & square with projecting rim, under which is cut a bevelled groove encircling the base. The faces & sides are streaked with long lines, so that the sides are almost rounded.
Publications: Foster Bequest 38, catalogue,Prehistoric Bronzes 74, catalogue is lost