Object: Slide-Fastener
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
Length (mm): 70.5
Width (mm): 34
Thickness (mm): 14
Weight (g): 42.2
Patina: Dull, very light green, with a few spots of emerald green.
Surface: Smooth
Other: Thickness: 14mm x 14.5mm
Associations: One of a Bronze Founder's Hoard of 16 Socketed Celts, 20 Lumps of Rough Metal, 14 Pieces of Socketed Celts, 14 small pieces of an earthernware pot, 4 pieces of rim of burial urn [Buch... base], a pair of burial urn handles, 3 spear heads, 1 chape, and part of a socketed tool.
Description: This is all hollow - the metal being about .72mm thick. The curved part of chape is filled with brick red earth.
Publications: Trans. Essex Arch. Soc., N.S., vi, 172