Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Chichester Institute,sold to the Museum of Newport, Mon. 1923.
Site: Ireland
Discovery context: auction
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 62
Width (mm): socket 38.5
Edge (mm): 48.5
Thickness (mm): socket 33
Weight (g): 142
Patina: Dark green patina in the pock holes
Surface: smooth, but pocked all over. Dark golden bronze colour
Description: Rim of socket has been filed all round & some of the roughness causedby holes, seems to have been reduced with a file.