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Bronze Age casting jet
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St. Albans District Council, Julian Watters, 2013-12-09 11:44:55
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Bronze Age casting jet
Description
English: A copper-alloy casting jet of probable Mid to Late Bronze Age date.

The uppermost part of the object consists of an inverted-sub-conical plug. The lower end of this plug bifurcates into circular-sectioned arms, each with a vertical, flat outer face.

Length: 26.9mm; width: 28.8mm; depth: 21mm; weight: 28.63g.

Casting jets are waste products which form at the top of a two-piece clay mould when the molten 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).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 1600 BC and 801 BC
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FindID: 589784
Old ref: BH-CC49D5
Filename: BA_casting_jet_13_100_7.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/449358
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/449358/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/589784
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