Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum
Site: England, shropshire,battlefield near shrewsbury,ploughed up near a hedge, 1862.
Discovery context: battlefield, farm
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1862
Length (mm): 106
Width (mm): 49
Surface: Slightly rough
Composition: Bronze: Copper 87.4; Tin 12.00; Iron Trace; Silver 0.006 = 99.46; Analysus by Prof. C. O. Bannister, University of Liverpool
Associations: Part of a large hoard, mostly melted: 7 other objects remain, 5 of uncertain use,  + 2 unlooped palstaves, all in Shrewsbury Museum (S. Wood Collection)
Description: Both edges thin and sharp: rise to centre.
Publications: Proc. Soc. Ant. II (2) 251-2:V (2), 431-2.,Evans, ABI, pp. 43, 86, 405, 460, 464.,Shrops Arch. Trans. IV (2), 279 (ref. Evans): X (2) 108, Exhibit Part: III (3), xxii, Misc.,V.C.H. Shrops. I. 202,Peake, "Bronze Age and Celtic World," Pl. I, 21,"Bronze Age in Wales", p. 17
Remarks: Donor J. Beacall.