Object: Casting waste
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Guille-Alles Museum, Guernsey, Gaudrion Collection
Site: Channel Islands,Alderney,Longy Common,1832
Country: Channel Islands
Year of discovery: 1832
Description: Weights only off odd fragments: Case I: 6 thin pieces of sword blade 73.5 gms; 1 piece of sword hilt 77.0 gms; Sword hilt 130.5 gms; 8 pieces of spearheads 118.0 gms; 12 pieces of socketed celts 279.0 gms; 1 pieces of pot 203.0 gms; 23 thin pieces of metal 154.5 gms; 4 conical lumps of metal 187.0 gms; 7 shapeless metal lumps (small) 85.0 gms; 15 fragments (unrecognizable) 661.6 gms; 3 odd metal lumps 489.0 gms; 7 pieces of amulets bits of wire etc. 160.5 gms; Case II: 41 sword blades (fragments) 1582.5 gms; Case III: 31 pieces of palstaves (edges) fragments of small spearheads 2222 gms; 1 small socketed celt (without loop) 72.5 gms
Publications: Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. III, 1848, 9, Trans. of Guiernisiase V 1906, 161