Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Peabody Museum,Harvard University,Cambridge, Mass.,3326,purchased 1868,collected by G. de Mortillet
Site: France,brittany,cotes du nord,plenee-jugon,la moussaye
Country: France
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 125
Width (mm): 36
Edge (mm): 34
Thickness (mm): 41
Patina: rough
Surface: fairly even
Other: Width: edge 34mm; socket 36mm,Thickness: edge 41mm
Associations: One of a hoard of more than 200.
Description: Socket entirely filled with earth.,Below socket are 3 bosses 1 to 3mm high.
Publications: Evans, J: Anc. Br. Impl. 115, 116, 445, 477,Dechelette, J.:Manuel d'Archeologie, ii, App i, 29,Chantre, E.: Age du Bronze: iii, 110,de Mortillet, G.: Cachettes de l'Age du Bronze en France [Bull. de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris (1894) 306],Materiaux (1868) 24,de Mortillet, G et A: Musee Prehist., 2nd Edit. Pl. XCVIII, No. 1298