Object: Unknown
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 116, Murray Collection
Site: Ireland,Co. Westmeath,near Kinnegad,In River Boyne,1840
Discovery context: river
Parish: Kinnegad
County: County Westmeath
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: 1839
Length (mm): 84
Width (mm): socket 42
Edge (mm): 58
Thickness (mm): socket 42
Weight (g): 189
Patina: Black patina - some metal showing through.
Surface: Slightly uneven
Description: Edge of socket mouth uneven with a "spur" on one side owing to defective casting. Loop thin flat & broken. Found with original yew haft.
Publications: Illustrated in Evans "B.I." p. 155. Taken from Wildes Catalogue of the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy.