Object: Socketed Celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mr. Lemmon, Saltwood
Site: England,Kent,Saltwood,Hayne Wood, on line of railway cutting, 6 ft. below surface, lying on stratum of sand, c 25 yards NE by N of summit of hill,Found June 4, 1872
Discovery context: railway cutting
Parish: Saltwood
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: Kent LXXIV NE
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 60
Width (mm): 32
Thickness (mm): 30
Weight (g): 85
Patina: Green and brown patina.
Surface: Smooth
Associations: Part of a large hoard; see card for first socketed celt.
Description: Fragment of lower part, consisting of part of one side, with loop, and part of two face, both crushed inside and split. Faces decorated with parallel ribs, of which there were probably originally five; [...] and mould mark.
Publications: Arch. Journ. XXX, 279,Jessup, Arch of Kent, 107,Evans,Journ. Anhtop. Inst. III, 230.