Object: Flanged Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Exeter Museum,(No. 307),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): 108
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 72
Thickness (mm): 15
Weight (g): 230
Patina: Brownish with green blistered encrustration.
Other: Width: edge 72mm; butt 23mm,Thickness: 15mm; 11mm,Weight: 230.12 gms
Associations: Part of the well-known Plymouth Hoard, consisting of 16 celts, 3 daggers, 1 spear-head, and 1 narrow chisel.
Publications: Archaeological Journal, Vol. XXVI, 346,Trans. Devonshire Association, No. 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 cwt.