Object: Strip Metal
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,No. 840 12/04
Site: England,Essex,found at Shoebury,1904
Parish: Shoebury
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1904
Length (mm): 72
Width (mm): 29; 32.4
Thickness (mm): 1.5 + near 1
Weight (g): 17.71
Patina: Traces of dull green light + dark speckled patina showing beneath the clay
Surface: Smooth. Covered practically all over with clay.
Associations: From a Bronze Foundation Hoard consisting of lumps of copper and a Bronze Celt, also a smaller piece of metal than this.
Description: Rivets appear to have been made of rolled metal + not in the usual rivet form.