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Description: | The blade end of a bronze socketed chisel of a type which is characteristic of the late Bronze Age, c1000-800BC, in Britain (B O'Connor, BAR International 91, 1980 174-5).
The chisel is incomplete due to an old worn break which is slightly squashed on one face. The chisel has an oval cross-section at the break. The blade has rounded ends and is centrally blunted. The socket appears to be partly filles with cooled molten metal at the terminal end.
Most of the original surface of this object is lost due to corrosion and its surface is in a poor condition. The original surface is patinated dark greeny brown but is mainly pale green in colour due to the active corrosion.
It is 58mm in surviving length, has a blade width of 22mm and a maximum thickness of 13mm. | 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
-800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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