Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Royal Scottish Museum,Edinburgh,Reg. No: 1890.499
Site: Ireland,Tipperary
Parish: Tipperary
County: County Tipperary
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 178
Width (mm): 83; centre 37
Thickness (mm): 13
Weight (g): 670
Patina: dark green patina
Surface: in fair condition
Description: Celt: bronze, flat, tapering both ways on the faces from a low central transverse ridge and expanding towards cutting edge: punched herring bone ornament on margins