Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2495 and edge 2506a
Site: England,Kent,Harty,1871
Parish: Harty
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 97
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): 34
Weight (g): 205
Patina: Green patina
Other: Weight: 205.33 gms
Associations: Hoard Nos. 2490-2520: see socketed celt No. 2491.
Description: Broken in half. Large flaw crack in upper part of one face. Triple moulding below collar.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, 110-111, 442-3, Hoard No. 5,Proc. Soc. Antiq. V, 424,Arch. Cantiana, IX, 300,V.C.H., Kent, I, 122,R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 108, 257
Remarks: Cast in mould No. 2490.