Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,1926,Earl of Powis,Powis Castle,Welshpool,Now National Museum of Wales,31.62/1
Site: wales,powys,welshpool,pool quay,crowther's camp,? recent association with lba hoard
Parish: Welshpool
County: Powys
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 148
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 75
Thickness (mm): 10
Weight (g): 393
Patina: Green.
Other: Width: edge 75mm; middle 35mm; butt 21mm,Weight: 392.6 gms
Associations: Part of a Bronze worker's hoard found with other implements and numerous pieces of unused bronze metal.,This association is exceedingly doubtful - L.F. Chitty
Description: Ornament on faces omitted in this sketch. LFC,Fair condition - cuts in butt.
Publications: Kept with Guilsfield Hoard. But E.L. Barnwell, Arch Cam. 1864, 213 expressly stated there "no very early types" were found in the hoard: evidence weighed up by L.F. Chitty, Arch Camb, 1939, 225.,Mont. Coll. Vol. III, p. 438.,Arch. Camb. Vol. X 3rd S. p. 212,PW, Xo, 547