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Description: | A probable Middle Bronze Age copper alloy unidentified object, 'moustache-shaped' with one of the lower tips damaged. Central hollow in base, transverse median groove around the top. There are multiple longitudinal grooves on the upper face on both sides of the moustache, the tapering lower parts plain. Height 27mm. Surviving width 39mm. Thickness 10.5mm. Weight 16.98g. The date of this enigmatic object is uncertain. Examples occurred in the Salisbury Hoard, which contained Bronze Age material but was buried in the Iron Age (Stead 1998). An example was found recently in a Middle Bronze Age context at Clay Farm, Cambridgeshire (see entry for HAMP-CO4CC3). Other Norfolk examples have been found in Attleborough (HER 56965, NMS-IF5E55), Barton Bendish (HER 17600), Gayton (HER 16121), Methwold (HER 5235), Runcton Holme (HER 33872), Shernborne (HER 24431), Shouldham Thorpe (HER 39265), Snettisham (HER 24432), Swaffham (HER 29208), see Rogerson and Ashley (2009), 556-7, figs.1-3.
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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