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Bronze Age Sword Blade Fragment. Treasure case no. 2015 T64-41
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Frank Basford, 2015-02-01 15:51:36
Title
Bronze Age Sword Blade Fragment. Treasure case no. 2015 T64-41
Description
English: A hoard of Late Bronze Age metalwork, comprising of 40 fragments of copper alloy ingot and two fragments of copper alloy sword. Treasure case no. 2015 T64. See also: IOW-77CAC3.

Ingot fragments

1. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 120.8mm; Width: 71.8; Thickness: 33.3; Weight: c. 969.0g;

2. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 100.6mm; Width: 89.4mm; Thickness: 29.6mm; Weight: c. 1080.0g;

3. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 128.4mm; Width: 68.2mm; Thickness: 37.9mm; Weight: c. 1196.0g;

4. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 119mm; Width: 117.8mm; Thickness: 28.8mm; Weight: 887g;

5. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 91.2mm; Width: 66.7mm; Thickness: 31.8mm; Weight c. 734.0g;

6. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 133.5; Width: 91.7mm; Thickness: 36.6mm; Weight: c. 1435.0g;

7. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 106.4mm; Width: 89.8mm; Thickness: 28mm; Weight: c. 1026.0g;

8. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 89.2; Width: 74.8mm; Thickness: 35.4mm; Weight: c. 764.0g;

9. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 91.7mm; Width: 83.4; Thickness: 27.9mm; Weight: c. 671.0g;

10. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 83mm; Width: 70.1mm; Thickness: 28.2mm; Weight: c. 458.0g;

11. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 87.3mm; Width: 50.9mm; Thickness: 33.8mm; Weight: c. 461.0g;

12. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 58.7mm; Width: 51.9mm; Thickness: 22.2mm; Weight: 183.42g;

13. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 75.6mm; Width: 57.5mm; Thickness: 22.8mm; Weight: 260.96g;

14. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 77.4mm; Width: 46.9mm; Thickness: 19.6mm; Weight: 276.61g;

15. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 71.9mm; Width: 44.9mm; Thickness: 25.4mm; Weight: 217.67g;

16. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 66.3mm; Width: 61.2mm; Thickness: 30.1mm; Weight: c. 549.0g;

17. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 56.2mm; Width: 39.9mm; Thickness: 30.7mm; Weight: 232.09g;

18. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 75.6; Width: 65.4mm; Thickness: 32.4mm; Weight: c. 480.0g;

19. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 65.2mm; Width: 54.3mm; Thickness: 30mm; Weight: c. 298.0g;

20. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 60.6mm; Width: 56.7 mm; Thickness: 20.9mm; Weight: 208.14g;

21. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 54.1mm; Width: 41.1mm; Thickness: 25.7mm; Weight: 263.38g;

22. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 59.2mm; Width: 39.2mm; Thickness: 28.7mm; Weight: 276.76g;

23. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 62.9mm; Width: 52.6mm; Thickness: 30.6mm; Weight: c. 350.0g;

24. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 52.2mm; Width: 46.8mm; Thickness: 24.7mm; Weight: 220.19g;

25. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 50.3mm; Width: 45.4mm; Thickness: 27.1mm; Weight: 218.19g;

26. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 70.1mm; Width: 46.7mm; Thickness: 31.2mm; Weight: c. 358.0g;

27. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 42.6mm; Width: 33.7mm; Thickness: 26.7mm; Weight: 147.41g;

28. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 54.8mm; Width: 40.7mm; Thickness: 20.3mm; Weight: 133.30g;

29. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 50.4mm; Width: 33mm; Thickness: 23.4mm; Weight: 174.39g;

30. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 40.3mm; Width: 38.4mm; Thickness: 27mm; Weight: 93.33g;

31. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 50.6mm; Width: 34.9mm; Thickness: 25.4mm; Weight: 127.49g;

32. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 58.8mm; Width: 45mm; Thickness: 27.8mm; Weight: 200.13g;

33. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 45.8mm; Width: 30.4mm; Thickness: 18.4mm; Weight: 73.41g;

34. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 39.7mm; Width: 31.4mm; Thickness: 14.7mm; Weight: 59.31g;

35. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 40.3mm; Width: 36.8mm; Thickness: 7.2mm; Weight: 78.91g;

36. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 45.8mm; Width: 24.3mm; Thickness: 19mm; Weight: 55.38g;

37. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 35.6mm; Width: 20.3mm; Thickness: 12.7mm; Weight: 25.10g;

38. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 34.3mm; Width: 33.8mm; Thickness: 15.7mm; Weight: 43.88g;

39. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 26.4mm; Width: 21.4mm; Thickness: 10.7mm; Weight: 17.74g;

40. Bun ingot fragment; copper alloy

Length: 30.3mm; Width: 21.1mm; Thickness: 18.6mm; Weight: 30.24g;

Sword blade fragments

41. Sword blade fragment

Probably from a Ewart Park type sword (Colquhoun & Burgess 1988, 55ff).

Length: 40.3mm; Width: 32.3mm; Thickness: 5.7mm; Weight: 35.31g;

42. Sword blade fragment

Probably from a Ewart Park type sword (Colquhoun & Burgess 1988, 55ff).

Length: 27.3mm; Width: 30.5mm; Thickness: 5.8mm; Weight: 20.63g;

Discussion:

The two sword blade fragments are probably from Late Bronze Age Ewart Park type swords and are a very common feature of so-called 'scrap' or 'founders' hoards of Late Bronze Age, especially in Southern England (e.g. Needham 1990). Fragments of ingot are also a regular feature of hoards of Late Bronze Age date, however, 'complete' plano-convex ingots of the type represented by No. 4 are rare but they are known from the assemblage of copper alloy and tin ingots associated with a probable Late Bronze Age shipwreck at Salcombe, Devon (e.g. British Museum 2010, 8032.1 and 2010, 8032.191) and from the Late Bronze Age carp's tongue complex hoard consisting of 352 objects from Boughton Malherbe, Kent (Treasure case 2011 T464).

Conclusion:

Due to their age and number, this find qualifies as a prehistoric base-metal assemblage and Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996, (Designation) Order 2002.

Bibliography

Colquhoun, I. & Burgess, C.B. 1988. The Swords of Britain (Prähistorische Bronzefunde IV.5). Munich: Beck.

Needham, S.P. 1990. The Petters Late Bronze Age Metalwork: an Analytical Study of Thames Valley Metalworking in a Settlement Context. London: British Museum Occasional Paper 70
Depicted place (County of findspot) Isle of Wight
Date between 1000 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 662482
Old ref: IOW-622CD9
Filename: 2015T6441swordbladefragment.JPG
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Object location50° 37′ 37.56″ N, 1° 15′ 49.86″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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