Object: Hammer Flanged Flat Celt
Classification: Flanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology + Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 94 Murray Collection
Site: Ireland,Co. Westmeath,Kinnegad
Parish: Kinnegad
County: County Westmeath
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 114
Width (mm): butt 24.5
Edge (mm): 60
Thickness (mm): 14
Weight (g): 264
Patina: Brown patina + green metal showing through on one side.
Surface: Smooth
Description: Slight flanges + stop ridge. Ornamented between the stop + bevel with 7 rows of incised chevrons. Sides ornamented with fluted rope pattern. Tapering butt + very much rounded + expanded cutting edge.