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Description: | Bronze Age hammer: A LBA socketed and collared hammerhead. The hammerhead is hollow, rectangular in profile, subrectangular in section at the closed end, round in section at the socket. The socket retains traces of a raised collar, 11mm deep. The entire hammerhead measures 65mm x 21mm x 10mm, with 5mm thick walls, and weighs 77.88g. It has a patchy green surface covering.
Parallels are known from the hoards at: The Reach, Cambs; Eaton (East Anglia);Carleton Rd (Norwich); Tankerton Bay and the Isle of Harty (Kent)
For 'The Reach', see Smith 1956, Inventaria Archaeologia. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ashby, Steven - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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