Object: Flanged Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Limerick, Craggrunowen Museum, ex-Hunt Collection,Formerly Herts County Museum, St. Albans,Lent by Capt. J. H. Ball, RAF
Site: England,Yorkshire,Pickering,on a metal scrap head,1916
Parish: Pickering
County: North Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1916
Length (mm): 141
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 71
Thickness (mm): 21
Weight (g): 241
Patina: Original patina was probably dark brown and polished. But this is pitted away, revealing green beneath with fairly large pitts all over.
Surface: A good deal pitted.
Other: Length: 140.5mm,Width: edge 71mm; middle 35mm; butt 27mm,Thickness: 21mm; 12mm; 20.5mm; 15mm,Weight: 240.97 gms
Associations: Found with 2 socketed celts and 1 winged celt. Unlikely to be genuine relationship.
Description: Butt is slightly burred. The sides of wings are decorated with hammer marks, but very indistinctly.