Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Carmarthenshire Antiq. Soc. Museum, Carmarthen
Site: wales,dyfed,llanfyrnach common,1841
Parish: Llanfyrnach Common
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: 1841
Length (mm): 143
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 86
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 370
Surface: Pitted on one side. Bright bronze.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: edge 86mm; butt 32mm
Description: Condition good. The scar on this celt has been regarded as an intentional representation of a bird, but it is clearly accidental.
Publications: Archaeologia Cambrensis 1893, Trans Carmarthen Antiq. Soc. Vol. XIII, p. XIV, 144-7 Fig;
Remarks: For many years in the British Museum, but returned to Carmarthen in 1919.