Object: Metal working Debris
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: 180.96,Colchester Museum,Purchased by the Colchester Corporation 1896,(trans. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S. VI.173)
Site: England,Essex,Southchurch
Parish: Southchurch
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 60.24
Associations: Part of a Bronze Founder's Hoard of 62 Pieces, composed of fragments of the following: 24 socketed celts; 6 swords; 4 spearheads; 2 knife sockets; 1 sword chape; 1 tang of sickle; also 15 lumps of metal, 7 fragments of undecisive shapes, 1 socketed gouge, and 1 gouge socket.
Description: 13 Pieces weighing: 60.24 gms; 28.35 gms; 102.76 gms; 53.15 gms; 112.51 gms; 67.33 gms; 78.84 gms; 74.42 gms; 75.3 gms; 69.11 gms; 20.76 gms; 60.24 gms; 37.2 gms,2 Pieces weighing (Bronze): 870.86 gms and 583.81 gms