Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2496
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 83
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 33
Weight (g): 152
Patina: Dark greenish patina.
Other: Weight: 151.50 gms
Associations: Hoard Nos. 2490-2520: see socketed celt No. 2491.
Description: Single moulding below collar. Crescentic blade. Damaged edge. Implement broken in half and repaired.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, 110-111, 442-3, Hoard No. 5,Proc. Soc. Antiq. V, 424,Arch. Cantiana, IX, 300,V.C.H., Kent, I, 122,R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 108, 257
Remarks: cf No. 2497.