Object: Socketed Celt
Classification: Breton Type
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,Miss Malcom Kerr (2),Hasilhead, Spring Gardens, Ventnor, I.O.W.
Site: England,Isle of Wight,Ventnor,Found under a large mass of rock at Ventnot Town (now Ventnor West) Station. c. 1899
Parish: Ventnor
District: Isle of Wight
County: Isle of Wight
Country: England
Grid reference: 6" O.S. Hants (I.W.) Sheet 100 NE
Year of discovery: 1899
Length (mm): 78
Width (mm): 18
Edge (mm): 26
Thickness (mm): 21
Weight (g): 70
Other: Width: edge 26mm; socket 17.5mm,Weight: 69.8 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard of about 30 celts: another in same collection: 2 in Carisbrooke Museum.
Publications: These 2 celts are unpublished (1929),J.L. Whitehead, "The Undercliffs of the Isle of Wight", pp. 16-17 (general account).,O.G. S. Crawford, "Prehistoric Trade Between England and France," L'anthropologie, 1913, xxiv, 646 (figures 3 other celts of this hoard).
Remarks: Small Breton type.