Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2492
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 101
Width (mm): 36
Edge (mm): 41
Thickness (mm): 37
Weight (g): 222
Patina: Dark greenish patina.
Other: Weight: 221.68 gms
Associations: Hoard Nos. 2490-2520: see socketed celt no. 2491.
Description: Triple moulding below collar. Vestigal wings on faces. Edge chipped and bent.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, 110-111, 442-3, Hoard No. 5,Proc. Soc. Antiq. V, 424,Arch. Cantonia, IX, 300,V.C.H., Kent, I, 122,R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 108, 257
Remarks: Cast from mould No. 2490.