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Description: | Five pieces of copper alloy of various size. The pieces were found over 20 years ago near Bronze Age items including axes which were previously on display in Arundel Museum and a chisel (SUSS-00F4DA). Ben Roberts (Curator of Bronze Age material, British Museum) commented that none of the five were distincly Bronze Age in form and all of them may be Bronze Age or equally may be later pieces. They all appear to have been formed from molton copper alloy.
Piece 1: roughly oval plano-convex piece with a rough, flat bottom and slightly smoother domed top. One edge has been cut off flat in modern times, exposing the golden shade of the copper alloy. It is 67.2mm long, 52.5mm wide, 12.4mm thick and weighs 138 grams.
Piece 2: one quarter of a plano convex piece with a rough bottom with distinctive pattern of ridges and wide grooves on the domed top. It is 48.5mm long, 500mm wide, 13.8mm thick and weighs 96 grams.
Piece 3: roughly triangular and flat with two straight sides and one more uneven side. It has a smooth but undulating surface and the shortest side appears to have been cut, although not recently, exposing the casting air-bubbles within. It is 41.3mm wide, 67.9mm long and varies from 6.7mm thick by the cut side to 13.1mm thick at the 'point'; it weighs 66 grams.
Piece 4: irregularly shaped nodule with a dark red patina exposing some bright copper. 41.8mm long, 29.9mm wide, 17.7mm thick and 51 grams.
Piece 5: irregularly shaped nodule with a dark red patina wih patches of green patina and some exposed bright copper in patches. 34.1mm long, 32.2mm wide, 15.6mm thick and 42 grams. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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