Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum,94.8-3.29,Purchased at the Sale of Humphrey Wickham's Collection at Sothebys through Messrs. Rollins and Fenardent,Lot 6, 1894
Site: England,KEnt,Allhallows,Hundred of Hoo,Found in 1873 on Home Wood Farm
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Allhallows
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 83 77
Year of discovery: 1873
Length (mm): 115
Width (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): 40
Weight (g): 255
Patina: green
Surface: very corroded
Associations: 29-52, Allhallows I; 7 Socketed Celts; 6 Fragments Socketed Celts; 2 Gouges; 1 Lancehead; 8 Fragments Swords; 1 Knife
Description: [Urth] loop + a boss on each face.
Publications: Evans, Br. Imps. 214, 230, 467,R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 107, 250,Arch. Cant. XI, 129 + Pl. X + IX 300.,V.C.H., Kent I, 322, 334
Remarks: Inacc.,AFI