Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge
Site: Ireland,Co. Mayo,Ballina
Parish: Ballina
County: County Mayo
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 92
Width (mm): socket 47
Edge (mm): 57
Thickness (mm): socket 39.5
Weight (g): 336
Patina: Very dark brown patina.
Surface: Smooth
Description: Oval  socket with projecting rim under which is cut a bevelled grooved encircling the base, sides rounded. Same one has filed away the surface & patina on one face, hardly enough for analysis.
Publications: Foster Bequest, 39, catalogue,Prehistoric Bronzes, No. 75, Catalogue is lost.