Object: Socketed Knife
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge, No. 181 Murray Collection
Site: Ireland, King's Co., Edenderry (near), Yellow River
Discovery context: river
Parish: Edenderry
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 165.5
Width (mm): blade 19; socket 21.5
Thickness (mm): socket 18; blade 4
Weight (g): 59
Patina: light greyish green patina
Surface: smooth & dull
Description: Oval mouth. 2 rivet holes in same plane as blade. Shoulders marked by ridge. Cutting edge faintly bevelled & faint midrib.