Object: Ferrule
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge,Purchased by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, April 1919.,1919.6
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Wilburton,In fen land belonging to Mr Oliver Claude Pell,1882
Parish: Wilburton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 52
Width (mm): 24,socket 19
Weight (g): 32
Surface: dull even black
Associations: The Wilburton Hoard
Description: Spheroidal end. Ornamented by 2 parallel grooves round socket, & 3 round upper part of bulb. The bottom which is a segment of a sphere has at the margin 2 concentric bands, hatched with lines in the outer ring to the right & in the inner to the left. 2 Rivet holes. Hollow throughout. Single casting.
Publications: Archaeologia Vol XLVIII 106.,New Cambridge 17 May 1919