Object: Flanged Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Exeter Museum,(No. 310),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): 96
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 34
Thickness (mm): 18
Weight (g): 206
Other: Width: edge 34mm; butt 24mm,Thickness: 18mm; 12mm,Weight: 205.55 gms
Associations: Part of the well-known Plymstock Hoard, consisting of 16 celts, 3 daggers, 1 spear-head, and 1 narrow chisel.
Description: Broken and much corroded.
Publications: Archaeological Journal, XXVI, 346.,Trans. Devonshire Association, IV, 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 cwts.