File:Bronze Age ingot fragment (FindID 877243).jpg

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Bronze Age ingot fragment
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Somerset County Council, Laura Burnett, 2017-12-04 13:50:44
Title
Bronze Age ingot fragment
Description
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Fragment of a copper-alloy ingot of probable late Bronze Age date, c. 1150 - 600BC.

Part of a plano-convex (bun) discoid ingot possibly suggesting the production in a bowl furnace rather than a mould. The upper is flat and the bottom is convex. Only a small section remains with a part of the original edge and very worn irregular breaks on the other sides. The section of the outside edge is too small to idenify the complete diameter. The ingot is pitted likely due to a mix of impurities in its matrix and the uneven natural material used to create the bowl in which it was cast.

The fragment is 65.4mm by 51.2mm and 23.8mm thick; it weighs 291g.

Bowl furnaces were developed during the Mediterranean Bronze Age, becoming popular in Britain in the Late Bronze Age and were used intermittently to the modern era for many types of metal.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Kent
Date between 1150 BC and 600 BC
Accession number
FindID: 877243
Old ref: SOM-C304F9
Filename: SOMC304F9.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/639856
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/639856/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/877243
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Object location51° 15′ 03.24″ N, 0° 53′ 29.13″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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