Object: Chisel
Classification: Broad lugged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private,Lord Harlech,Brogyntyn, Oswestry,1923,No 2
Site: England,Shropshire,Oswestry (near?),Brogyntyn (formerly "Porkington") near Oswestry, }It seems to be part of the "Oswestry brazier" hoard.
Parish: Oswestry
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 83
Width (mm): edge 29, middle 7
Thickness (mm): 4, 5
Weight (g): 28
Patina: dark red brown & black
Surface: lightly striated diagonally
Associations: Possibly obtained with 9 other implements from a brazier in Oswestry (before 1869). Exact site etc, unknown. Reported to Arch. Institute 3rd May 1850, as having been found with a gouge *& broken sword at Porkington.*
Publications: Sir J. Evans, B. Imps. pp. 168, 174 (but does not closely resemble his figure 199).,Auden, Vic. C.H. Shrops. I. 202,*Arch. Jour. VII p.195