Object: Flanged Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: City Art Gallery, Leeds,John Holmes Collection,Cat. No. 186
Site: England,Yorkshire,Wakefield,Sandal Magna,Found near Sandall Castle,Acquired about 1850
Parish: Wakefield
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Grid reference: c SE 337 181
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 142
Edge (mm): 69
Thickness (mm): 19
Weight (g): 391
Patina: Green
Description: The sides, beaten down to form flanges, are rounded off and have been worked with a design of broad shallow flutings which is only preserved in places by the patina. 3 slightly raised and curved lines cross blade between flanges in the centre.
Publications: Varley, 1977, 52 fig. 2.4, 53