Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge.,(G. Roots Collection)
Site: Ireland
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 73
Width (mm): socket 40
Edge (mm): 49.5
Thickness (mm): socket 36
Weight (g): 170
Patina: black patina with metal showing through especially about the blade.
Surface: slightly rough
Description: Square socket. thick rim with projecting ridge. faint traces of a collar. faces flat. sides faceted. Some one has filed the blade on one side slightly.
Publications: Foster Bequest 36. Catalogue,Prehistoric Bronzes 67. catalogue is lost.