Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2499
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 71
Width (mm): 30
Edge (mm): 33
Thickness (mm): 29
Weight (g): 113
Patina: Dark greenish brown patina, almost black, glossy.
Other: Weight: 112.76 gms
Associations: Hoard Nos. 2490-2520: see socketed celt No. 2491.
Description: Roundish mouth. Single moulding below bead of collar. Conspicuous flaw on one face.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, 110-111, 442-3, Hoard No. 5,Proc. Soc. Antiq. V, 424,Arch. Cantiana, IX, 300,V.C.H., Kent, I, 122,R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 108, 257
Remarks: Cast from mould No. 2498.