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Description: | Description2. Socketed axe fragment (site id. 358)Mouth intact, but blade and one face lacking. Class A socketed axe decorated with wing-rib design. The bases of the wings continue onto the sides as a slight horizontal moulding. Length 69 mm; weight 81.4 g3. Plate-like fragment All edges broken; possibly part of an artefact. Max. dimension 46.5 mm; weight 23.2 g4. Tang fragmentBlunt ended rod of sub-trapezoid section; other end thins and expands towards a bifurcation, but the two ends are immediately broken. Length 36.5 mm; weight 9.4g5. Ingot fragment (349) weight 434.5 g6. Ingot edge fragment (351) weight 286.9 g7. Ingot near-edge fragment (352) weight 623.2 g8. Ingot edge fragment (353) weight 325.1 g9. Ingot edge fragment (355) weight 611.1 g10. Ingot edge fragment (356) weight 566.2 g11. Ingot near-edge fragment (357) weight 343.8 g12. Lump, craggy form; weight 4.3 g13. Lump, craggy form; weight 5.3 g14. Lump, small flattish disc; weight 6.5 g15. Lump, flattish, rough; weight 2.5 gIdentificationThe socketed axe is the only securely datable object among the group, belonging to the Ewart stage of the Late Bronze Age, circa 1000 - 800 BC. However, all but one of the remaining copper/alloy objects would be entirely consistent with such a date; the ingot fragments are typical of the form frequently encountered in Late Bronze Age hoards, while the smaller lumps, which are prills or waste, can also be matched in some contemporary contexts.The gold rod is undiagnostic. Its composition is consistent with a Bronze Age date, but not necessarily exactly contemporary with the base metalwork.The final copper alloy object, no 4, has not been recognised but is most likely to belong to a later period.Found with 2004 T85/KENT-1D63A6
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