Object: Socketed celt mould
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2490
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 127
Width (mm): 58
Thickness (mm): 52
Weight (g): 687
Patina: Dark patina
Other: Weight: 687.04 gms
Associations: Nos. 2490-2520. Hoard of 31 pieces comprising 14 socketed celts and 3 moulds, 2 gouges and one mould, 2 anvils, 2 socketed hammers, 1 ?orifice of mould, 1 double-edged tanged knife, 1 curved tanged blade, 1?ferrule, 1 fragment of ? bracelet, 1 whetstone, 2 pieces of metal.
Description: 2 halves of mould for casting socketed celts, looped, with vestigal wings on faces and triple moulding below collar. Each half has a broken loop on the interior near centre.
Publications: For Hoard in general: Sir John Evans, Proc. Soc. Antiq. V, 424; VII; 484,Congres Prehistorique, Stockholm, I, 445,Sir John Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, Hoard No. 105, pp. 110-1, 174, 177, 181, 186, 211, 214, 308, 403, 441-6, 453, 457, 463, 468, Figs. For this mould see especially pp. 441-4, Fig. 530.,Arch. Cantiana, IX, 300,V.C.H. Kent I, 322.,R.F. Jessup, 'Kent' 108-257.
Remarks: "The stock-in-trade of an ancient bronze founder." Evans, A.B.I., p. 442.,Socketed Celts Nos. 2491-5 and possible edge No. 2506 b are from this mould.