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Description: | Late Bronze Age Socketed hammer with rather bubbly pockmarked surfaces but no obvious signs of use. Sub-rectangular socket, 13 x 15 x 36mm. Length 71mm. Ovoid section at socket (28 x 23.5m), sub-rectangular at working face (21 x 13mm). Weighing 139.72g.
Hammers are not a common item in the Late Bronze Age tool repertoire of tools. In Norfolk seven other sites have produced examples, and four of these are hoards.
c.1000 ? c.700 BC. | 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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