Object: Socketed axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: McKinnion, Saltwood
Site: England,Kent,Saltwood,Hargut Wood, on line of railway cutting, 6 ft below surface, lying on [?stretch] of sand, c. 25 yards NE by N of summit of hill.,Found June 4, 1872
Discovery context: railway cutting
Parish: Saltwood
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: Kent LXXIV NE
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 49
Weight (g): 18
Patina: Green and brown patina, but see sketch.
Surface: Fairly smooth
Associations: Founder's Hoard; at present consisting of 5 socketed celts, 16 socketed celt fragments; 2 spearheads (V), 2 spearhead fragments, 14 sword fragments, 2 sickle fragments, 2 socketed knife fragments, 3 bracelet fragments, 1 socketed gouge, 1 looped mount, 1 chape, 1 chisel, 1 disc, miscasting of a socket; 1 hinch pin, 14 lumps. But much is now missing.
Description: Width/Thickness: See drawings,Small fragment of the socket of a small spatulate blade. The lower part consists of a socket with splayed-out mouth, oval in section, no rivet holes. The socket extends almost through to the other end, and finally fixed in its furthest part is a thin piece of bronze, which appears to be a fragment of a bracelet. The upper part it flattened out to form the beginning of a blade, apparently some form of socketed knife, but of unusual form.
Publications: Arch. Journ, XXX, 279,Evans,Jessup, Arch of Kent, 107,Journ. Anthrop. Inst. III, 230.