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Description: | Socket and part blade from bronze ring-socketed sickle with short cylindrical socket, this is one item within a hoard. The blade appears to have been cast at about a 45° angle from the socket instead of the normal 90° angle. The casting seams on the socket and the butt of the blade are quite crude and show little or no cleaning. The break of the lenticular blade is ancient. The irregular lower (?) blade edge is broken along its length (ancient breaks). The upper(?) blade edge is sharp and appears finished. The socket lacks the normal peg hole/s. The blade angle, crude finish and lack of peg holes suggest possible unfinished miscast. This sickle is a Middle Bronze Age form, and also occurs in Late Bronze Age hoards at Isleham (O'Connor 1980) and Writtle, Essex.
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