Object: Casting waste
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell (Southend on Sea),Presented by Mr. Concillor N.J. Osborne, Oct. 1922,128/5
Site: England,Essex,Leigh-on-Sea
Parish: Leigh-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Width (mm): 55
Thickness (mm): 23
Weight (g): 201.98
Patina: Light green, coppery colour metal showing beneath.
Surface: Rough
Other: Width: 55mm x 50mm
Associations: Possibly from an early bronze workers hoard.
Description: Flatter on under side (perhaps part of a cake) and marked with roughly circular rings, as if spots of water, had dripped on the hot metal.