Object: Cake
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Saffron Walden Museum,CLXXVIII,Given by J. Clarke, F.S.A.
Site: England,Essex,Arkesden,near Chardwell Farm while land-draining, 1872
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Arkesden
County: Essex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TL 471 345
Year of discovery: 1872
Weight (g): 112
Patina: A faint thin green patina.
Surface: Very little corroded.
Associations: Part of a hoard of about 60 pieces.
Description: Weights: a. 112 gms; b. 132.5 gms,Fractions show crystaline structure strongly marked.
Publications: Trans. Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1873, II, (3rd ser.) Illustrations 279.