Object: Flanged Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Exeter Museum,(No. 309),Presented 31 January 1879 by His Grace the Duke of Bedford, owner of the field.
Site: England,Devonshire,Plymstock,in a field called Rocky Parks, about 1 mile E. of Oreston, in the Cattewater, Plymouth Sound, 2 feet deep.,24 October 1868.
Parish: Plymstock
County: Devon
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1868
Length (mm): 107
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 16
Weight (g): 203
Patina: Brown and green. Hard sandy incrustation in parts.
Other: Width: edge 50mm; butt 22mm,Thickness: 16mm; 12mm,Weight: 203.1 gms
Associations: Part of the well-known Plymstock Hoard, consisting of 16 celts, 3 daggers, 1 spear-head, and 1 narrow chisel.
Publications: Archaeological Journal XXVI, 346.,Trans. Devonshire Association, N. 304,Evans, J., Anc. Bronze Implements, 50, 165, 241, 259, 464.
Remarks: This hoard lay under a flat stone supposed to weigh between 3 and 4 cwt.