Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2497
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 82
Width (mm): 34
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 37
Weight (g): 186
Patina: Black and green patina.
Other: Weight: 186.39 gms
Associations: Hoard Nos. 2490-2520: see socketed celt No. 2491.
Description: Single moulding below collar, which is distorted and has a large chip missing. Splayed blade wtih one corner broken off.
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. 2496.