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Description: | A fragment of late Bronze Age plate scrap (ingot). C. 1000 - 800 BC. The fragment has a smooth flat inside surface with a slightly curved inside edge on its horizontal plane. It is also slightly curved across the horizontal inside surface making it very slightly curved in shape. Running vertically on its outside surface from the smallest bottom edge to the widest edge, there is a slightly uneven 5.60 mm raised rib decoration that runs the length of the fragment, with a smaller rib (3.22mm) running horizontally across the thicker rib at 5.22 mm from the fractured leading edge to the full extent of the vertical edges. Only five pieces have been recorded from five locations previously - Co. Roscommon, Ireland; Guilsfield, Montgomeryshire; Isleham, Cambs; Wantisden, Suffolk (all hoards) and Covehithe, Suffolk (an un- associated single fragment). The hoarded associations suggest a Wilburton phase date (at the beginning of the late Bronze Age), (c. 1200 - 1000 BC ). This is of national importance . | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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