Object: Casting Waste
Completeness: Fragment
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
Parish: Hatfield Broad Oak
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Associations: Above are part of a hoard of 16 socketed celts, 20 lumps of rough metal, 14 pieces of socketed celts, 14 small pieces of an earthenware pot, 3 spearheads, 1 chape and part of a socketed tool. 4 pieces of rim of burial urn and pair of burial urn handles.
Description: Piece of flat Bronze, measuring 37mm at widest part (4.86 gms),Two pieces of thin flat bronze possibly belonging to a vessel (4.2, 2.21 gms),Small piece of moulded bronze beading, like the edge of a vessel (5.31 gms),Small piece of sheet bronze with a flat rivet attaching it to another piece of sheet bronze (quite flat) (3.09 gms),Another fragment similar to the above (2.65 gms),Piece of flat bronze, about 1mm thick, tapering to an edge (5 gms),Piece of bronze 17mm to 24mm wide, 24mm long and tapering from 3 1/2 mm to 8mm (16.82 gms),Irregular piece of thin bronze (7.4 gms),Small piece of fluted bronze with a turned over rim (L section) with a hole in it, perhaps for a rivet (4.86 gms),Piece of metal like an elongated S and almost D shaped in section, 55mm long. Possibly part of the handle of a bronze vessel (19.8 gms),Piece of bronze shaped like the spout of a tea pot, but solid and flat, the edges being rounded on one side. Pierced for a rivet. (19.6 gms),A fragment which appears to have belonged to a chape. (8.4 gms),Small piece of fluted metal, like the loops (holding the rings) of the burial urn handles (40.29 gms),Irregular piece of flat, bronze with a loop attached. Loop ends do not show on this side (8.4 gms),Irregular piece of flat whitish bronze (5 gms),Broken piece of thin bronze, pierced for a rivet, and with part of a straight edge with 3 incised lines running  along it (12.4 gms),Thin piece of bronze with a turn over edge (section) (7.52 gms),A small fragment of something like a piece of socketed celt (very thin) (9 gms),Thin piece of bronze about 1/2 mm thick and of irregular shape (7mm),Curved piece of bronze with a section like that of a leaf shaped sword 14 to 15mm wide - perhaps a piece of a knife (4.86 gms),A piece of shaped bronze 32mm long by 14 to 15mm wide, with a tapering edge, possibly part of a chisel (7.96 gms),3 pieces of a ribbon bracelet (bronze) with cable pattern edge (5 gms),2 Narrow pieces of bracelet of continental origin (3.09, 2.65 gms)