Object: Socketed celt mould
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2498
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 106
Width (mm): 44
Thickness (mm): 50
Weight (g): 431
Patina: Dirty green-black patina.
Other: Weight: 431.40 gms
Associations: Hoard No. 2490-2520: see socketed celt mould 2490.
Description: 2 halves, closely fitting round socketed celt No. 2499. Flaw in moulding inside one half corresponds to lump on face of celt. 3 knobs on each face, 1 rather pointed, the rest rounded.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., pp. 110-1, 442-4, Hoard No. 105, Fig. 531,Proc. Soc. Antiq. V. 424,Arch. Cantiana IX, 300,V.C.H. Kent I, 322,R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 108, 257, fig. 16