Object: Socketed Hammer
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2512
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 66
Width (mm): 17
Thickness (mm): 15
Weight (g): 67
Patina: Green patina, rough blue oxide on one face.
Other: Width: socket 17mm,Weight: 67.30 gms
Associations: Hoard, Nos 2490-2520: see hammer No. 2511.
Description: Apparently a large admixture of tin, Evans, p. 178. 2 facets on striking face.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps. pp. 177-8, 442, Fig. 212, Hoard No. 105,R. F. Jessup, 'Kent', 107, 261, Fig. 16