Object: Socketed Chisel
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Crisp, Mr. Glen - private (1991),The Willows, Drym, Praze, Cornwall,TR14 0NU
Site: England,Cornwall,St. Erth,Bosence,Found 1 December 1990 by Glen Crisp using a metal-detector; 4 inches deep in a field at SW 572 322; the only metal object found in the field.
Parish: St. Erth
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SW 572 322
Year of discovery: 1990
Length (mm): 58
Edge (mm): 16
Weight (g): 36
Surface: Very pocked scarred, no sign of original surface.
Description: Dimensions:EL 57.5mm; We 16mm; Ds29mm; Wt. 36.1 gms,Typology: probably a near-square section; no m-m's survive,Manufacture: hints of casting flash in differential corrosion,Condition: cutting edge blunt,Attached Material:traces of soil in socket end.
Remarks: PRBAF: DF (S),Ext.: Drawing from RDP, Truro,Rec.: SN Jan 91,Source: Sb.A