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Description: | Fragment of copper-alloy plate, dark grey-green patina with slight traces of bronze disease. All edges have ancient breaks. On one face there is a narrow rib which runs up the centre of the fragment to meet a second transverse rib at right angles. This second rib runs along a broken edge. The other face is flat and undecorated. The dimensions of the fragment are 40 mm (parallel to the central rib) x 28 mm perpendicular to this, and 2.2 mm thick excluding the rib. It weighs 15.32g. Copper-alloy plate fragments with narrow ribs seem to have been cast from bronze (copper/tin) ingots mixed with lead, and then broken up for further use or for dispersal to other workers. They are extremely important for our knowledge of Late Bronze Age metalworking, and so far are only known from three other places; Isleham in Cambridgeshire, Guilsfield in Powys, and Roscommon in Ireland. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -1000
-700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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