Object: Stake Anvil
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2515
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 172
Width (mm): 14
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 75
Patina: Green
Other: Weight: 75.21 gms
Associations: Hoard of 32 pieces, Nos. 2490-2520, comprising: 14 socketed celts and 3 moulds, 2 gouges, and 1 mould, 1 orifice of mould, 2 anvils, 2 hammers, 1 knife, 1 curved blade, 1 ?ferrule, 1 fragment of ? bracelet, 1 whetstone, 2 pieces of metal
Description: Rod square in section with short flat spur on one side. One end tapers to a point, the other to a rounded wedge.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps. pp. 185-7, 442, Fig. 220: Hoard No. 105,For full references to hoard, see socketed celt No. 2491,R.F. Jessup, "Kent", 107, 207, Fig. 16.
Remarks: "The stock-in-trade of an ancient bronze founder," Evans, A.B.I, p. 442.