Object: Unknown 
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum,donor Mr. T. Beacall.
Site: England,Shropshire,Battlefield,hoard found near a hedge when ploughing.
Hoard: yes
Discovery context: battlefield
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 150
Width (mm): 47; 38
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 368.55
Surface: covered with patches of iron stains, & very rough.
Associations: One of 5 objects, 3 were exhibited to S of A, 16 Apl. 1863, by Saml. Wood FSA, & stated to have been found with a large number of bronze objects, most of these were melted. The 5 were No. J40 in the Exhibn. of Shrops. Ant. 1898, & described as "possibly grappling instruments affixed to scaling ladders".
Description: This is twisted.
Publications: Figd. in Proc. Soc. Ant. II (2nd S), p. 252.,S.A.T. X (2nd S), p. 108, & III (3rd S), p. xxii.,Evans B. Impts.p. 43, suggests no purpose for these 5 objects, but calls them "sickle like" p. 43, 405.