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Description: | A small fragment of bronze plate ingot. The sub-triangular fragment has one original plate edge and two broken edges, the rounded original plate edge formed by the cooling of the molten metal. It is probable that plate ingot was formed by pouring molten bronze upon a prepared flat surface and then breaking the resulting sheet of metal into small fragments.Plate ingot is not at all common. Just four hoards are known: from Wantisden in Suffolk, Isleham in Cambridgeshire, Guilsfield in Powys and Roscommon in Ireland. It represents the first use of leaded bronze; however, this fragment appears to be pure bronze which if confirmed would set it at odds with the lead bronze plate ingot so far found, and perhaps suggest a slightly earlier date for it. It is probable that many single finds of plate ingot are made but in the majority of cases go unrecorded. Found in isolation a single piece is easily dismissed as nothing more than a vessel fragment of much later date or metalworking dross. This ingot fragment was found in the topsoil in close association with two South Eastern class A socketed axeheads (ESS-BAA3B2, ESS-BABB61) and two body sherds of contemporary flint tempered ware (ESS-BAC322)
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