Object: Socketed celt mould
Classification: 1 valve
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2501
Site: England,Kent,Harty, Isle of,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 91
Width (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 23
Weight (g): 184
Patina: Dirty patina, pale green and black.
Other: Weight: 183.53 gms
Associations: Hoard No. 2490-2520: see mould No. 2490.
Description: Perforated vertical lug on exterior. Fragment of lead lining opposite this inside: ?remains of leaden celt used as core-box. Evans, p. 445. Flaw within below loop corresponds to flaws in Celts 2502-4.
Publications: Evans, Proc. Soc. Antiq. V 424 ff, XIII, 300,Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., pp. 111, 442, 444-5, Hoard No. 105.,Arch Cantiana IX, 300,V.C.H. Kent, I, 322,R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 108, 257.
Remarks: Socketed Celts Nos. 2502-4 have been cast from this mould.