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Description: | Fragment of copper-alloy plate, dark grey-green patina with slight traces of bronze disease. All edges are broken. Both faces are flat and undecorated. The dimensions of the fragment are 22 x 15 mm, and 3.4 mm thick. It weighs 6.90g. 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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