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Description: | Short length of rod originally of circular section of about 5 mm diameter. Both ends have been hammered, cut and finally torn. The hammer facets taper back and almost meet in the middle. The thinned blunter ends have steep ??cut?? facets and are partly rough-fractured. The undamaged parts of the sides have slight longitudinal facets and fine striations from the original finishing. Such a small and undiagnostic fragment cannot be identified definitively. However, all the features, including the mode of fragmentation and the metal composition are consistent with this being part of a Bronze Age bar bracelet. As such, it would belong to the Middle or Late Bronze Age, circa 1500 ?? 750 BC.
Similar artefacts were reported under the Treasure Trove Law and are included in the 1996-7 Treasure Trove Reviewing Committee: Annual Report 1996-97. These published finds were found in Fittleworth, West Sussex (pp8). This report suggests that these finds could be fragments of bracelet. This fragment is very probably from a piece of ancient jewellery and is predominantly of precious metal. Dimensions: weight 4.57 g; length 18.2 g; maximum width 6.0 mm | Subjects: | Gold | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrews-Wilson, Liz - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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