Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge,54/7
Site: Ireland
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 92
Width (mm): socket 45
Edge (mm): 55
Thickness (mm): socket 43.5
Weight (g): 295
Patina: Black patina & metal showing through.
Surface: Smooth
Description: Round socket. Boldly projecting rim, sides rounded. Loops widens broadly where it joins the sides. Blunt edge. A hole 10mm across on one face near rim. Faint traces of a collar.
Publications: Foster Bequest, 33, catalogue.,Prehistoric Bronzes, 64, Catalogue is lost.