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Description: | A copper-alloy casting jet of probable Mid to Late Bronze Age date.The piece takes the form of an inverted half-cylinder, its bottom point bifurcating into two angled runners.Dimensions: 28.3mm high, 25.6mm wide, 11.8mm wide (top). Weight: 20.93g.Casting jets are waste products which form at the top of a two-piece clay mould when the moulten metal has filled the object-shaped void below. As they represent re-usable metal, they were often retained and regularly turn up in founder's hoards of the period (see, for example, 2006 T36, from Devon).
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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