Object: Unknown
Period: Bronze Age
Site: England,Essex,Little Bentley,Little Bently Hall Farm
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Little Bentley
County: Essex
Country: England
Grid reference: TM 131 246
Year of discovery: NA
Surface: Dull grey-green smooth surface, and varied light green dusty rough surface.
Composition: Metallurgy - Analyst: BM Res. Lab: XRF analysis at several points on surface suggested no appreciable variation in composition.
Description: Typology: one stretch of edge of lump seems to represent edge of 'ingot' giving way to crudely flat face (1) and convex face (2),Condition: tube (1) - one end much damaged, broken away prior to remelting, but short stretch of orig. edge poss. extant on face (2), part of side flange apparently bent inwards.,Attached Material: On face (2) small no. of strips of carbonized matter embedded in approximately quardrillateral shape; some scattered specks and threads of white material embedded in surface - calcium-based? also grain of ?quartz - 2mm.
Remarks: Cont. Card.