Object: Flat Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum,  pres by R.E.Clarke, Esq.,  (between 1881 & 1908)
Site: England,  shropshire, asterton
Parish: Asterton
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 103
Width (mm): middle 23 butt 16
Edge (mm): 48
Thickness (mm): 14
Weight (g): 166.55
Surface: smooth green brown bronze, parts worn down to blue green core which powders off
Composition: Cu.85.73 Sn 14.10 Pb. .04 Fe. .07 As. trace Ag. .03 Total 99.97
Associations: Palstave No. (1957), on evidence of palstave's powder q.v.    Asterton is in the valley below the ancient Port  Way which runs the length of the Longmynd. There are many round burrows along its course, several being above Asterton, 2 in the locality being oval.
Publications: Vic. Co. Hist. Shropshire Vol. I. p.203 (under Prolly Moor),  Trans. Caradoc & S.V.F.C. 1893.6 p.77,  Shrops. Notes & Queries, Feb. 17, 1893