Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Site: Wales,Monmouth,Beaufort,about 1500 yds. NW of St. Andrews Church,Found July 1922 in quarrying for road-metal on the steep slopes of the E. side of the Ebbw valley.
Parish: Beaufort
County: Gwent
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: 1922
Length (mm): 98
Width (mm): 55
Edge (mm): 55
Thickness (mm): 44
Composition: Bronze
Associations: This and another from hoard of about 8 pieces (about 6 Soc. Celts similar to this: one smaller and one palstave).
Remarks: The small axe and the palstave are in the possession of the Duke of Beaufort at Badmington.