Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.,cat. 1836, p122, No.2,given by Dr. Robert Plot, 1684
Site: England, staffordshire,ilam,near st. bertram's well
Parish: Ilam
County: Staffordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 178
Width (mm): Butt 31
Edge (mm): 99
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 566.65
Patina: Brown
Composition: ? Copper on bronze
Other: Description: I think it says "culling edge" rather than "cutting edge", though "cutting edge" might seem more likely.,  Note - Whoops! I have now realised that what I took to be an "8" in the weight on an earlier card was actually the "g" from the abbreviation for grams. I thought the weight seemed too large at the time (because my putative 8 gave it an extra digit) so I assumed it was ".8". I commented on it in the Transcriber's Comments at that time. On the plus side, if you can't find that transcription, at least the Weight will be only 0.8 grams out.
Description: Culling edge ground
Publications: Plot, R., History of Staffordshire p.403; pl. xxxiii, fig 6.
Remarks: According to Catalogue 1836, p.122, No. 1 was that figured by Dr. Plot, but this resembles the figure more nearly.