Object: RAZOR
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.,Evans Collection, 1927-2514.
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 83
Width (mm): 25
Thickness (mm): 3
Weight (g): 11.04
Patina: Green
Associations: Hoard of 32 pieces; Nos. 2490-2520,,Comprising 14 socketed celts & 3 moulds, 2 gouges & 1 mould, 2 socketed hammers, 1 knife, 2 anvils, 1 ?orifice of mould, 1 ?ferrule, 1 whetstone, 1 fragment of ?bracelet, 2 pieces of metal.
Description: Fragment of a tanged, "Maple-leaf" or bifid razor broken longitudinally to the side of slight blade grooving, broken edge blunted, cf Invent. Arch. above.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps. pp. 214, 442, Fig. 260. For full references to hoard see socketed celt No. 2491. Hoard No. 105.,Inventaria Archaeologica 3rd Set No. 18 (3).
Remarks: "The stock-in-trade of an ancient bronze founder." Evans, ABI p.442.