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Description: | An incomplete bronze socketed hammer, with rectangular faces. The hammer survives in two fragments.Small butt end fragment: 83g. Length: 35.6mm, Width: 24.9mm, Thickness: 19.9mm. Large socketed end fragment: 152g. Length: 61.01mm, Width of socket: 29.2mm, Thickness of socket: 26.3mm. Internal socket = 15.6mm x 15.9mm. 36mm = socket depth.Socketed hammers are relatively rare finds, but are known from both middle and late Bronze Age contexts. This hammer was found as a single find. They are likely to be metal workers tools. The hammer has a rectangular section, with a socket which is 36mm deep. The mouth of the socket is sub-rectangular. The mouth has a wide undecorated mouth moulding. Below this moulding and around the butt end of the hammer, there is a series of raised bindings. It is possible therefore that this object was made in a wooden mould, which was bound with twine and it is the twine that we are seeing in high relief. The edges of the hammer are slightly curved, but rectangular in shape, no casting lines are evident but some mis-cast marks are still evident indicating that this hammer was never finished to a high level. The hammer tapers slightly inwards to the butt end, which is rounded, but badly damaged and corroded. The object has broken about two-thirds of the way along the length. The break is badly worn and corroded but appears to have been a relatively recent break rather than from antiquity. The surface of the body of the hammer is quite corroded and although it retains much of its patina there are small patches of green corrosive product. The metal has a high tin contain - giving it a silvery appearance. Similar to PAS database record No: SF-B89096 and HAMP-1F3730.
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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