Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2494
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isel of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 92
Width (mm): 40
Edge (mm): 37
Thickness (mm): 33
Weight (g): 177
Patina: Dark greenish patina
Other: Weight: 176.95 gms
Associations: Hoard Nos. 2490-2520: See socketed celt, No. 2491
Description: Double bead on socket. Part of rim broken off, but fragment preserved. Vestigal wings on faces. One chip out of edge.
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: From Mould No. 2490, but only double moulding on socket (Evans, p. 443).