Object: Plate Scrap
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Gibson, Mr. D. J. - private (7),115 Hurstcourt Road, Sutton, Surrey
Site: England,Greater London,River Thames Foreshore,Syon Park
Discovery context: river
Parish: Isleworth
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 1735 7630
Year of discovery: NA
Width (mm): 64.5
Thickness (mm): 4.5
Weight (g): 35.5
Surface: Dullish straw-gold thin surface/patina, flaked to shiny black-brown, or both flaked to underlying brassy-gold in add spots.
Description: Dimensions: max. dim. 64.5mm; max. T (with knob) 4.5; max. T. plate 2.9; Wt. 35.5 g,Typology: two essentially flat faces; i) little undulating with cast knob - not regular form, ii) flat except along 'sharp' edge where thinned in convex profile.,Manufacture: thinned edge in as-cast state - irregular edge, not very sharp, with cast dimples adjacent,Condition: slight twist in plate; all three thick sides appear to be broken,Attached Material: whitish accretion (?) thin layer - over much of one face and on sides.
Remarks: PIF; AFI; DF(S); SI; CI; Rec.: Sn Dec. 79; Source: Sb. A.; Sub. Inf.: via Jon Cotton (W. London F.U.) March 79