Object: SLIDE-FASTENER
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford -,        Evans Collection, 1927 - 2517
Site: England, Kent, Harty, isle of, 1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 39
Width (mm): Diameter of ends 15 - 16
Weight (g): 10.26
Patina: Green
Other: 4-part, hand-drawn illustration.  One dimension indicated., Original title of card struck through.  Current title info written over white-out label in different ink and handwriting from rest of card.
Associations: Hoard of 32 pieces, Nos. 2490-2520 comprising 14 socketed celts & 3 moulds, 2 gouges & 1 mould, 2 hammers, 2 anvils, 2 knives, 1 whetstone, 1 ?orifice of mould, 1 ?end of bracelet, 2 pieces of metal cakes_
Description: Reel-shaped, with large slot through whole width.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps. pp. 308, 442.  Fig. 377.  Hoard No. 105.,  For full references to hoard, see socketed celt No. 2491.
Remarks: "The stock-in-trade of an ancient bronze founder."  Evans, p. 442., Either chapet [] or mouthpiece of dagger sheath.  See Evans 305.