Object: Socketed Celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mr. Lemmon, Saltwood
Site: England,Kent,Saltwood,Hayne Wood, on line 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: Kent LXXIV NE
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 44
Width (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 17
Weight (g): 62
Patina: Green and brown, with traces of golden bronze.
Surface: Smooth with one patch of slight encrustment.
Associations: Part of a large hoard; see card for first socketed celt.
Description: Edge mostly chipped away, a little of original edge surviving.
Publications: Arch. Journ. XXX, 279,Jessup, Arch of Kent, 107,Evans,Journ. Anhtop. Inst. III, 230.