Object: Socketed Celt
Classification: Breton Type
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,Miss Malcolm Kerr (1),Hasilhead, Spring Gardens,Ventnor, I.O.W.
Site: England,Isle of Wight,Ventnor,Found under large mass of rock at Ventnor Town (now Ventnor West) Station.,About 1899
Parish: Ventnor
District: Isle of Wight
County: Isle of Wight
Country: England
Grid reference: 6" O.S. Hants. (I.W.) Sheet 100 NE)
Year of discovery: 1899
Length (mm): 78
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 25
Thickness (mm): 23
Weight (g): 85
Other: Width: edge 24.5mm; socket 21.5mm,Thickness: socket 22.5mm,Weight: 85.2 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard of about 30 celts (another in same collection).
Publications: These 2 celts are unpublished (1929).,J. L. Whitehead, "The Undercliff of the Isle of Wight," pp. 16-17 (general account),O.G.S.Crawford, "Prehistoric Trade between England and France," L'Anthropologie, 1913, xxiv, 646 (figures 3 other celts of this hoard).
Remarks: 2 others in Carisbrooke Museum. Small Breton type.