Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, No. 1927-2491
Site: England,Kent,Howty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Howty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 105
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 38
Thickness (mm): 38
Weight (g): 233
Patina: Dark greenish.
Other: Weight: 232.65 gms
Associations: Nos. 2490-2520. Hoard of 32 pieces, comprising 14 socketed celts and 3 moulds, 2 gouges and 1 mould, 2 socketed hammers, 1 ?orifice of mould, 2 anvils, 1 double-edged tanged knife, 1 ?ferrule, 1 curved tanged blade, 1 piece of ?bracelet, 1 whetstone*, 2 pieces of metal.
Description: 3 beaded  mouldings above  loop with plain collar above. Vestigal wings on faces. Circular socket.
Publications: Of hoard in General: Evans, Proc. Soc. Antiq. V, 424,Congres prehistorique, Stockholm, Vol, I, 445,Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., pp. 110-1, 174, 177, 181, 186, 211, 214, 308, 403, 441-6, 453, 457, 463, 468, Figs.  Hoard No. 105. For this socketed celt, see p. 110, Fig. 113 and for mould, pp. 441-4, Fig. 530.,Arch. Cantiana, IX, 300,V.C.H. Kent, I, 322,R.J. Jessup, 'Kent', 108,257
Remarks: Cast in in mould No. 2490, as were also Nos. 2491-4, 2495 + 2506, and possibly edge 2506b.,"The stock-in-trade of an ancient bronze founder." Evans, ABI, p. 442.,*Whetstone drawn on reverse, P.T.O.