Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum
Site: England, shropshire,titterstone,clee hill, north side
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Titterstone
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1889
Length (mm): 204
Edge (mm): 121
Patina: good rich green on plain side, possibly cleaned to show punching on other
Surface: Good and smooth on one side and on the other decorated with punching
Composition: Bronze
Other: Lots of Roman numerals in the Publications meant I couldn't transcribe it exactly as it appears. Surface and patina: I'm not 100% sure that word is "punching". Written next to the sketch: "No. 69. sketched by E.C. Middleton, Hardwick Road, Streetly, April (or maybe March?) 25th 1921
Associations: near phlanged celt, boar's tusk & tooth
Description: Very fine example
Publications: Shrops. Notes & Queries, 10th March 1893,Shrops. Arch. Trans. IV(2), 279:X(2), Exhib Past, p108,Auden, V.C.H. Shrops. I.203 & pl. facing p200
Remarks: Donor H. Hodges, Ludlow