Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2637,J. Brent, F.S.A
Site: England,Kent,Canterbury, found at
Parish: Canterbury
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 78
Width (mm): 29
Edge (mm): 38
Thickness (mm): 27
Weight (g): 117
Patina: Olive green patina.
Other: Width: edge 38mm; waist 22mm; socket 29mm,Weight: 116.76 gms
Description: Square mouth. Body narrows to angular waist. Blade splayed; edge chipped.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, p. 114, fig. 118,V.C.H. Kent, I, 335,R.F. Jessup, 'Kent' 253.
Remarks: Waisted: cf. "Swiss Lake" types as R. Munro. The Lake Dwellings of Europe (1890) 39-91 fig. 18.1-2 (from Cite de Geneve lake dwellings, Geneva Mus.) where 1 is axe, 2 adze like that from  Weeke, Hants.