Object: Casting Waste
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,(151.94),Presented to Essex Arch. Soc. by Lord Rookwood, 1894,(trans. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S. VI.172)
Site: England,Essex,Hatfield Broad Oak,NB: South church [...] also in pot similar to this one in Colchester.
Parish: Hatfield Broad Oak
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 1700.97
Patina: Medium green
Surface: Smooth
Associations: Part of a Bronze Founder's Hoard consisting of 16 socketed celts and 20 lumps of rough metal, also 14 pieces of socketed celts and 14 small pieces of an earthenware pot; 4 pieces of rim of burial urn, a pair of burial urn handles, 3 spearheads, 1 chape, and part of a socketed tool.
Description: 20 lumps weighing: 1700.97 gms* (approx.) (*Too heavy for scales); 882.39 gms; 733.56 gms; 450.06 gms; 262.23 gms; 111.62 gms; 152 gms; 297 gms; 226.8 gms; 216.15 gms; 258.69 gms; 194.9 gms; 129.33 gms; 168.33 gms; 97.45 gms; 113 gms; 102.76 gms; 109.85 gms; 95.67 gms; 63.78 gms