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Description: | 1: A large and nebulous lump of cast copper-alloy metal working debris. Measuring c57mm by c35mm in size and c22mm in thickness. One face is smooth and the other rougher to the touch.
2: A small rectangular fragment of cast copper-alloy metal working debris, measuring 21.4mm in length and 11.2mm in width.
3: A cast copper-alloy fragment, roughly rectangular in shape measuring 39.8mm in length and 28.6mm in width. The fragment is flat with one longitudinal edge curved over. There is a copper-alloy rivet through it near to one edge. This fragment is likely to be metal working debris as it is distorted due to being heated to a high temperature, presumably for re-use.
Although these three fragments of metal working debris were discovered in the same area of the field as a fragment of a socketed Bronze Age axehead there is no way of knowing if they are in fact Bronze Age in date too. The finds were in the plough soil and therefore have no archaeological context which can be used to date them accurately. It is therefore only possible to say that they could date from the Bronze Age to the post-medieval period. | 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: | -1500
1650 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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