Object: Socketed Knife
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge, No. 180 Murray Collection
Site: Ireland, King's Co., Edenderry
Parish: Edenderry
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 312
Width (mm): blade 37.5; socket 32.5; 25.5
Thickness (mm): socket 19; blade 5
Weight (g): 217
Surface: smooth shiny & even dark brown except for eaten-into corroded patch which is light brown on one face. The other face is more of an even dusty brown. small corroded patch same colour.
Description: Bevel round edge has a groove behind it. Socket is hexagonal, the 2 side faces being much the narrowest. 2 rivet holes in same plane as the blade.