Object: Cap Terminal
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology + Ethnology, Cambridge,Purchased by the Cambridge Antiquaries Society, April 1919,1919.b
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Wilburton,In fen-land belonging to Mr. Oliver Claude Pell,1882
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Wilburton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 79
Thickness (mm): 27
Weight (g): 102
Patina: Black and dusty brown patina
Surface: Rough and corroded. Broken away round the edge and near one of the Rovet holes. Cast marks show by Rivet holes
Associations: The Wilburton Hoard
Description: Described and illustrated in the Archaeologia, as an object "not unlike the lid of jar, consisting of a convex circular plate with a shallow groove round margin + having attached to it and the concave side, a short tube of metal. Through this runs a hole for the Rivet bu which it was probably attached to a piece of wood". Cast marks show by Rivet holes. Single casting
Publications: Archaeologia, XLVIII, 106,New Cambridge, 17 May 1919