Object: Wedge
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Rochester Museum,Donor: Lt. Col. Copeland, FSA
Site: England,Kent,Harbledown,1900
Parish: Harbledown
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1900
Length (mm): 180
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 58
Thickness (mm): 14
Patina: A little dark green patina.
Surface: Rough - some encrustment and signs of light coloured earth.
Other: Width: edge 58mm; butt 22mm
Description: Butt end thick and square.
Publications: R.F. Jessup, "Kent", 111.257, 1930
Remarks: "...was scarcely mounted in a handle as butt end is thick and square, but was possibly used as a cold chisel, the trunnions being a hand hold." (Damage fairly recent.)