Object: Ferrule
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Cooper, Mr. Harold,26 Gloucester Crescent, Laleham, Staines,Wooden shaft tip retained in PRBA, for identification & potential C14
Site: England,Surrey,Chertsey,Mixnam's Pit East,Found about 15th/16th June, by Mr. H. Cooper, operating a drag-line in the gravel pit; he was engaged in reducing a long north-pointing torque of land which had carried on access road (formerly) into the northern part of the gravel field: the route had become blocked about April/May by the installation of a belt on the E-W split which in tongue projected from; Mr. Cooper noticed the ferrule after it had rolled.
Parish: Chertsey
County: Surrey
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 0469 6901
Year of discovery: 1981
Length (mm): 213
Width (mm): 24
Weight (g): 185
Surface: Dull brown with gold dlecking, smooth surface; clay material in socket end might be core remnant (visible through break).
Associations: 8a. Single Find (O)
Description: DImensions: L 213mm; Wm 24.2; Bm 24; Wt. 185.3 gms (wt. includes wood etc. in socket),Typology: v. smooth finish; peg-holes bevelled towards outside; mouth rim flattish but variable in thickness,Manufacture: no signs of cg. flashes just v. slight angularity down sides below peg holes break through very thin metal (0.5mm); near socket end - weak point from misplaced core; one peg-hole particularly ill-formed - prob. cast.,Condition: ragged perforation close to tip - mostly edges seem frackned, thus damage at weak point.,Attached Material: wooden shaft butt in socket, almost to mouth - extracted; break at ped-hole; large patch of accretion composed of small gravel chips and one snail.
Remarks: PIF; DF(S); SI; CI; SN Sept. 81; Sb. A.; Sub. Inf. via Chertsey Mus. 11/7/81; Cont. Card: 1