Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum and Public Library Maidstone,Presented by Silas Wagon Esq., the owner of the gravel pit, Jany 1921
Site: England, Kent, aylesford,on the site of gravel pit known as parish field,oct. 1898,(13 feet beneath the surface
Parish: Aylesford
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: Ord. Sur. 6" Kent XXXI SW Long 0"28'55" E lat 51 18' 24" N
Year of discovery: 1898
Length (mm): 208
Width (mm): 35
Edge (mm): 123
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 978
Patina: Warty malachite green patina probably oxy-carbonate of copper.
Other: Width: edge 123mm; butt 35mm,Thickness: 9mm; 15mm; 6mm,Weight: 978.07 gms
Associations: Found with 2 Rivetted Daggers + human remains in a fragmentary condition.
Description: Both the side having a slight ridge down the centre, showing where the two halves of the mould were joined.
Publications: Procs. Soc. of Antiquaries, Second Series Vol. XVII, pp. 373, 376-7,V.C.H. Kent I 334,R.F. Jessup, "Kent" p. 115, 251