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Description: | Copper-alloy sprue cap waster with remains of four casting runners and with two distinctly coloured remnants of fired clay between the runners. From the underside, a straight line clearly separates the differently coloured clays, with about two-thirds being of a rusty red-brown and dark brown, the other third being a pale grey-brown. A smaller area of this paler clay lies between the runners and the top of the sprue cap. The copper alloy is patinated a medium to dark green. It is impossible to be sure of the date, but the sprue cap itself is paralleled by numerous examples used for producing socketed tools and weapons in Late Bronze Age hoards. The clay may be from the mould, particularly from the inner (socket) mould core, in which case it is particularly rare, with the colour variation offering added interest in understanding how the socket was produced.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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