Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum,No No.,'T' Townsley Collection acquired 1814
Site: England, lancashire,whalley,read
Parish: Whalley
County: Lancashire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 200
Width (mm): 36
Edge (mm): 117
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): 887
Patina: Remains of fine patina dark green (face) showing metal.
Surface: A good deal pitted. The reverse is all corroded.
Other: Width: edge 117mm; butt 36mm,Weight: 887.18 gms
Description: Sides facetted with cable pattern. Faces worked into a series of slightly hollowed facets and decorated with punched chevrons - very nearly effaced.
Publications: Evans fig. 6,Whitaker's History of the original Parish of Whalley
Remarks: Almost OK (surface)