Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Exeter Museum (No. 400),Presented by the late N.S. Heineken Esq, 2nd Aug 1872
Site: England, devonshire,southleigh.,e ditch of lane from cross dyke to blackbury castle, 220 yards n. of exeter to lyme road: may 1872.
Parish: Southleigh.
County: Devon
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 115
Width (mm): (edge) 59; (butt) 26
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 204.16
Patina: brown & green
Surface: scratched & rubbed
Associations: At a quarter of a mile W of 10th milestone on the Lyme & Exeter road, there is a lane running N. It connects the Cross Dyke with Blackbury Castle. The Celt was dug up in the E. or right hand ditch at about 220 yds down the lane in May 1872 by Mr Carter, landlord of the Three Horseshoes Inn, who sold it to the donor as above.
Publications: Trans. Devon Assoc: Vol V p82 (1872)