Object: Looped socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum, W.G. 1947
Site: England,Kent,Aylesford,Preston Shelf,ford on Pilgrim's Road
Parish: Aylesford
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 72 58
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 88
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 53
Thickness (mm): 36
Weight (g): 189
Patina: Brown
Surface: Smooth
Composition: Bronze
Associations: This celt was found with 3 others in a drift of sand at Preston Shelf at Aylesford, the ancient ford in a line of the Pilgrim's road.
Description: Square section. 3 ribs on each face of butt. Marks of casting.
Publications: R.F. Jessup's 'Kent', 106, 251, Pl. V
Remarks: AOK,NDA May 1974,CI