Object: Looped socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum, WG 1945
Site: England,Kent,Aylesford
Parish: Aylesford
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 72 58
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 106
Width (mm): 36
Edge (mm): 51
Thickness (mm): 36
Weight (g): 228
Patina: Green
Surface: Corroded on blade.
Composition: Bronze
Description: Round section, one point of blade broken.
Publications: R.F. Jessup, "Kent", 106, 251, Pl. V
Remarks: This celt was found with 3 others in a drift of sand, at Preston Shelf at Aylesford. The ancient ford in a line of the Pilgrim's road.,AOK,NDA May 1974,CI