Object: Socketed Hammer
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2511
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 70
Width (mm): 27
Thickness (mm): 25
Weight (g): 143
Patina: Silver green patina.
Surface: Some rust and corrosion and brown staining.
Other: Width: socket 27mm,Weight: 143.11 gms
Associations: Hoard No. 2490.2520 comprising 14 socketed celts, 3 moulds, 2 gouges, and 1 mould, 2 hammers, 2 anvils, 2 knives, 1 whetstone, 1 ? ferrule, 1? orifice of mould, 1 end of ?bracelet, 2 pieces of metal.
Description: Seems to contain a large admixture of tin - Evans, p. 178. Square mouth with round opening to socket. Heavy collar with deep moulding below. Striking face worn askew.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps. pp. 177-8, 442 Fig 211. Hoard No. 105,For full references, see socketed celt No. 2491,R.F. Jessup, "Kent", 108, 261, Fig. 16
Remarks: "The stock-in-trade of an ancient bronze founder," Evans, p. 442.