Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Site: Wales,Monmouth,Beaufort,About 1500 yards NW of St. Andrews Church.,Found July 1922 in quarrying for road-metal on he steep slopes of the E. side of the Ebbs Valley.
Parish: Beaufort
County: Gwent
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: 1922
Length (mm): 102
Width (mm): 45
Edge (mm): 55
Thickness (mm): 44
Composition: Bronze
Associations: This and another from hoard of about 8 pieces (about 6 soc. celts similar to this: one smaller; and one palstave).
Description: In unfinished state.
Remarks: The small axe and the palstave are in the possession of the Duke of Beaufort at Badmington.