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Description: | Late Bronze Age cast copper alloy socketed gouge, dating 1000-800BC. The gouge is sub-rectangular in plan, decreasing in with from the socketed end, before expanding out at the working edge. It is circular in cross section at the socketed end, however the mouth edge has been damaged and broken. The upper surface of the gouge has a recess along two thirds of its length, starting at a point located 26.42mm below the mouth, which widens out towards the blade end, forming a 'V' shaped depression along the length of the gouge. This recess changes the cross section of the gouge to crescentric or 'U' shaped. The gouge has a mid-green patina. It is 70.7mm long, 16.4mm wide across the socketed mouth, 15.4mm wide at the working end. It weighs 33.13 grams
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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