Object: Flanged Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum,1933; 4.6.124,Formerly R. Garraway Rice, Esq. Private Collection, Chelsea,9.7.20
Site: England,Greater London,Nr. West Drayton,Rly. Station,1912
Discovery context: railway cutting
Parish: West Drayton
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 06 79
Year of discovery: 1912
Length (mm): 149
Width (mm): 29
Edge (mm): 92
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 503
Patina: A little brown patina.
Surface: Mostly smooth. One side has been cleaned and is of dark bronze colour. Golden bronze. Other side chiefly red rust colour with some rust encrustment just discernable.
Other: Width: edge 92mm; butt 29mm,Thickness: 11mm; 22mm,Weight: 503.21 gms
Associations: A few feet away from this was found a corner pillar (7 1/4 in. long) of a Brass Bracket Clock. Elizabethan or Jacoban.
Description: The sides are fluted (found in clay. 4 ft. 6" from surface)
Remarks: A OK,CI