Object: Flanged Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum 1853.4-12.8
Site: England,Sussex East,Plumpton,Plumpton Plain,near Lewes
Parish: Plumpton
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 36 13
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 124
Width (mm): 18
Edge (mm): 65
Thickness (mm): 19
Weight (g): 229
Patina: Brown; green in pits and along cutting edge, where are also traces of blue.
Surface: Pitted, on one side between flanges near butt, on the other near cutting edge.
Composition: Copper 86.79; Tin 11.34; Arsenic 0.78; Nickel 0.37; Antimony 0.31; Silver 0.17; Iron 0.14; Lead Trace
Other: Width: edge 65mm; butt 18mm
Description: Considerably worn, especially along cutting edge and along edges of flanges; slight stop ridge formed by divergence with angle of plane of the upper and lower parts. marks of filing along edges and round butt.
Remarks: Inacc.