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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy probable late Bronze Age socketed hammer. It is cylindrical in form with flat, circular, slightly expanded base and a damaged socket at the other end. Only the interior of the socket survives. It is light green in colour and heavily corroded with the surface missing in places. Where the surface does survive there is a suggestion that it was originally vertically faceted. Almost all of the surface is missing on the base so no evidence of wear is now visible.Hammers were in use in Britain during the Taunton metalwork phase of the MBA, with slender hammers appearing in both the Taunton and Bishopsland hoards and a massive hammer in the Burgess's Meadow, Oxford hoard (O'Connor 1980, vol.1, 61). However, they only became common in LBA hoards. As such Rowlands (1976, 45) states that 'it would be unwise to date stray finds to the MBA'. Hammers with quadrangular sections have been found in several LBA3 hoards (O'Connor 1980, vol.1, 176), however, and so this example may possibly date to this later period. Socketed hammers are found much less commonly than socketed axes and to date only c.36 have been recorded on the PAS database.Length: 41.06mm, diameter at socket: 16.89mm, diameter at end: 17.89mm, weight: 55.72g
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