Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: In a private collection April 1924,  Mr. Hemp obtained,  The information obtained by Mr. Wilfred J. Hemp,  Now N.M.W. Cardiff, Dec 1976
Site: wales, gwnedd, ? dunawd fort, criccieth, or on snowdon range
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 208
Width (mm): edge 92 middle 46, butt 36
Thickness (mm): 15 ; 13.75 ; 14
Weight (g): 666.21
Patina: No patina
Surface: Smooth dark bronze
Other: Location of Dunawd (hill) Fort, Criccieth is unclear on map so Georeference is town centre with a 10 km radius
Description: Traces of incised decoration in middle of face.  This tapers from centre.  Is sharp edge & butt.  The widest part of side is plain, but between middle and edge there is a suggestion of facets on the sides.  Ripples are not so cleanly defined on reverse. The 2 raised lines (running across ripples) are from the mould.  There is another, much shorter, slanting in from the edge.
Publications: Hemp, Arch. Camb., 1924, 329-331, Figs. 2,3 ;,  Megan & Hartley, Pr. Prehist. Soc., 1938, no. 23
Remarks: It has been said that these ripples form a decoration, but they may have been caused by the molten metal being poured into a cold mould.