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Description: | Copper-alloy twin feeder casting jet (probably). Mass: 49.9g, length: 26.2mm, depth: 21.1mm, width: 33.2mm. Broadly flat, oval top with tapering sprues. Green, pitted surface with brown adhesions, probably from its time in the ground. Casting jets with two to four casting runners are associated with the production of late Bronze Age socketed axes (see Worrell, "Bronze Age Artefacts", unpublished (December 2004 revised version). It is possible, therefore, that the object recorded here is metal working debris from the Bronze Age, although it may be from as late a date as the post-medieval period.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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