Object: Socketed Celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mr. Lemmon, Saltwood
Site: England,Kent,Saltwood,Hayne Wood, on line of railway cutting, 6 ft. below surface, on stratum of sand, c. 25 yards NW by N of summit of hill.,Found June 4, 1872
Discovery context: railway cutting
Parish: Saltwood
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: Kent LXXIV NE
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 50
Width (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): 19
Weight (g): 135
Patina: Green with a little brown patina.
Surface: Fairly smooth
Associations: Part of a large hoard; see card for first socketed celt.
Description: The central part of the blade-edge and mouth of socket missing. The whole is bent into a curved shape, and the lower part is considerably crushed. On one face of the blade are four ribs, the central ones pointed, the extreme ones terminating in a round boss: on the other side (which is crushed on the ribs partly obliterated) these appear to have been five ribs, the extreme and the central one terminating in a round boss, the second and fourth pointed. Remains of wood in socket.
Publications: Arch. Journ. XXX, 279,Jessup, Arch of Kent, 107,Evans,Journ. Anhtop. Inst. III, 230.