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Bronze Age casting jet
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St. Albans District Council, Julian Watters, 2015-05-06 10:53:51
Title
Bronze Age casting jet
Description
English: A copper-alloy casting jet, probably dating from the Mid to Late Bronze Age.

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.

Height: 31.9mm; length: 33.4mm; width: 25.9mm. Weight: 60.29g.

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 base metal hoards of the period; see, for example, Treasure case 2006 T36, from Devon.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Buckinghamshire
Date between 1600 BC and 800 BC
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FindID: 719296
Old ref: BH-8BDE6E
Filename: BA_casting_jet_15_68_15.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/515419
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/515419/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/719296
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