Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology Cambridge,purchased at Barnes 30/-
Site: England, cambridgeshire,burwell fen
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 145
Width (mm): edge 101.5,butt 35.5
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): 609
Patina: dark brown to black patina emerald green & buff in the pitts.
Surface: smooth except for the even pitting
Description: Looks as though blade had been slightly sharpened recently. The scratches as if they were made with a file & showing the metal colour very bright except for pittings of corrosion. Sides look as if smoothed with emery paper showing up the pittings in the same manner.
Publications: Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue 1911 No 504