Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Folkestone Museum
Site: England,Kent,Saltwood,Hayne Wood, on limit of railway cutting, 6 ft. below surface, lying on stratum of sand, c 25 yards NE by N of summit of hill.,Found June 4, 1872
Discovery context: railway cutting
Parish: Saltwood
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: TR 152 365; Kent LXXIV NE
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 95
Edge (mm): 47
Thickness (mm): 37
Weight (g): 192
Patina: Green and brown.
Surface: One face much the others fairly corroded and pitted.
Other: Thickness: 36.5mm
Associations: Founders hoard; at present consisting of 5 socketed celts; 16 fragments of socketed celts; 2 spearheads (V); 2 fragments of spearheads; 14 sword-fragments; 2 sickle fragments; 2 socketed knife fragments; 3 bracelet fragments; 1 socketed gouge; 1 looped mount; 1 chape; 1 socketed chisel; 1 oval disc; miscasting of spearhead socket; 1 lynch pin; 14 lumps. But much is missing (see Evans?); for mouth of a ? mould see Arch. Journ. XXX.
Description: Cutting edge chipped, but the unchipped part very sharp; form of one face obliterated by encrustment; the other shows two curved ribs and between them a circular boss. This is one of the most complete objects from the hoard.
Publications: Arch. Journ. XXX, 279,Jessup, Arch of Kent, 107,Evans,Journ. Anhtop. Inst. III, 230.