Object: Flanged Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Exeter Museum,(No. 308),Presented 31 January 1870 by His Grace the Suke of Bedford, owner of the field.
Site: England,Devonshire,Plymstock,in a field called Rockt 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): 115
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 73
Thickness (mm): 17
Weight (g): 279
Patina: Brown with green sandy incrustations.
Other: Width: edge 73mm; butt 20mm,Thickness: 17mm; 13mm,Weight: 278.5 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 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.