Object: Sickle
Classification: Tang
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,180.96,Purchased by the Colchester Corporation, 1896,(Trans. Essex Arch. Soc., N.S. VI.173)
Site: England,Essex,Southchurch
Parish: Southchurch
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 99
Width (mm): 25
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 60
Patina: Lightish green, with a thin coating of encrustment of a darker shade.
Surface: Fairly smooth.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: 25mm; 20.5mm,Thickness: 6mm; 2.5mm,Weight: 60.24 gms
Associations: One of a Bronze Founder's Hoard of 62 pieces, composed of fragments of the following: 24 socketed celts; 6 swords; 4 spearheads; 2 Knife sockets; 1 sword chape; 1 Tang of sickle; also 15 Lumps of Metal; 7 Fragments of undecisive shapes. 1 socketed gouge, and 1 gouge socket.
Description: This has been varnished. 2 lots of rough metal adhere to septum. Reddish gravel shows nearly all over.
Publications: Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S., vi. 173 and N.S. XVI, p. 266,Sir. C. Fox, Arch Cambriensis, Dec. 1941, p. 144, No. 10, (Pl. II),Proc. Soc. Antiq., 2nd S., XVI, p. 98