Object: Knife
Classification: Knife, Tanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.,Evans Collection, 1927-2513.
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 132
Width (mm): 21
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 46.77
Patina: Green; patch of blue oxide on tang.
Associations: Hoard of 32 pieces, Nos. 2490-2520, comprising 14 socketed celts & 3 moulds, 2 gouges & 1 mould, 2 socketed hammers, 2 anvils, 1 curved tanged blade, 1 ?ferrule, 1 ?end of bracelet, 1 ?orifice of mould, 1 whetstone, 2 pieces of metal.
Description: Double-edged; edges much worn. ? made from point of broken sword. Evans, p.211. Broad tang; possibly a rivet-hole has been broken out at the end.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps. pp. 211-2, 442 - Fig. 253 - Hoard No. 105.,For full references, see socketed celt No. 2491.
Remarks: "The stock-in-trade of an ancient bronze founder." Evans, p.442