Object: Socketed Gouge mould
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2507
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 123
Width (mm): 38
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 247
Other: Weight: 247.35 gms
Associations: Hoard of 32 pieces, Nos. 2490-2520 comprising 14 socketed celts + 3 moulds, 2 gouges + 1 mould, 2 hammers, 2 anvils, 2 knives, 1 ?ferrule, 1 ?end of bracelet, 1 whetstone, 1 ?orifice of mould, 2 pieces of metal.
Description: Transverse holes in upper part when mould closed to hold trunnions of clay core (Evans, p. 446). Loops on faces, one broken off.  Valve with broken loop has 2 pairs of bosses on internal edge, one of each pair a little higher than the other, which interlock with corresponding depressions on the other valve, ensuring perfect fit of mould.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., pp. 174, 442, 446, Fig 532, Hoard No. 105,(For full references to hoard, see Socketed Celt No. 2491)
Remarks: "The stock-in-trade of an ancient bronze founder." Evans, p. 442.