Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum,94 8 3 1,purchased 1894
Site: England,Kent,Allhallows, Hundred of Hoo,Little Coombe Farm,1875
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Allhallows
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 81 77
Year of discovery: 1875
Length (mm): 118
Width (mm): edge 40; socket 39
Thickness (mm): socket 38
Weight (g): 242.4
Surface: much encrused.
Associations: Founder's Hoard II,27 objects: 16 Sock. Axes & frags., 2 frag. winged Axes, 1 winged, 3 sockets, 1 Spearhead & 1 frag. sphd., Sock. Knife frag. & Sword hilt, 1 flanged butt, 1 palstave butt?, 1 hammer socketed frag., 2 socket frags.
Publications: Arch. Cant. XI, 123; IX, 300.,V.C.H. Kent, I, 322, 334.,R.F. Jessup 'Kent', 107, 250,Evans, B. Imps., 214, 230, 467.
Remarks: Inacc.,AFI