Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2506b
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 41
Edge (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): 19
Weight (g): 79
Patina: Green patina
Other: Weight: 79.33 gms
Associations: Hoard Nos. 2490-2520: see socketed celt No. 2491.
Description: Solid metal, but small depression shows commencement of socket.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, makes no mention of this broken axe,Proc. Soc. Antiq. V, 424,Arch. Cantiana, IX, 300,V.C.H., Kent, I, 122,R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 108, 257
Remarks: For 2506a, see socketed celt no. 2495 to which it belongs.