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Bronze Age ingot (fragment)
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St. Albans District Council, Julian Watters, 2016-01-25 11:42:08
Title
Bronze Age ingot (fragment)
Description
English: A fragment of a Bronze Age copper-alloy ingot.

The piece is irregular in plan but retains part of its convex outer edge. The upper and lower surfaces are both convex and slope downwards, towards this outer edge. The casting contains large air pockets.

Length: 50mm; width: 42.1mm; thickness: 25mm. Weight: 224.81g.

This piece is typical of the fragments of circular ingot commonly found associated with hoards of the Middle to Late Bronze Age. Comparable fragments include PAS record BH-09D254 and Treasure case 2012 T286 (BH-6FF1F3), a hoard of 14 such pieces from Sarratt, Hertfordshire.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Milton Keynes
Date between 1100 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 763851
Old ref: BH-609B54
Filename: BA_ingot_15_178_1.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/549852
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/549852/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/763851
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