Object: Socketed Celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mr. Lemmon, Saltwood
Site: England,Kent,Saltwood,Hayne Wood, on line of railway cutting, 6 feet 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): 41
Width (mm): 38
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 35
Associations: Part of a large hoard; see card for first socketed celt.
Description: Piece of blade near cutting edge. Edge itself missing. The whole is slightly curved and on the concave side is a large casting flaw, around which the metal is very thin. Remains of wood in socket.
Publications: Arch. Journ. XXX, 279,Jessup, Arch of Kent, 107,Evans,Journ. Anhtop. Inst. III, 230.