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Description: | Copper alloyIngot fragment. Flat tongue-shaped fragment of an ingot; the texture of its surface suggests it was cast in a sand mould. Pink staining appears in patches on the external surface. The ingot is bent, and one end, along with an uncertain amount of metal, is lost. Complete examples of this form have recently been reported from Bigby (NLM-EBBC25) and Scawby (NLM-A94C57), both Lincolnshire. In these cases, a relationship of their weights with a pre-Roman metrical system was considered. This example comes from a larger ingot, and as one end is broken, any such correspondence cannot be established. However, it may be significant that this site has produced both non-ferrous metalworking waste and, associated with it in one case, a part-melted brooch dated to the late 1st century AD. Suggested date: Late Iron Age to Early Roman, 300 BC-100AD.Length: 48.6mm, Width: 29.4mm, Thickness: 13.9mm, Weight: 77.32gms.
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