Object: Chisel
Classification: Tanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Carisbrooke Museum., Presented by Sir L. Holmes.
Site: England,  (isle of wight), arreton or arreton down or shaleombe down, found by mr. dennett in 1816
Discovery context: downland
Parish: Arreton
District: Isle of Wight
County: Isle of Wight
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1816
Length (mm): 60
Edge (mm): 19
Thickness (mm): 4.5
Weight (g): 15
Other: 2 cross section drawings of chisel on reverse., edge is somewhat chipped and damged.
Publications: Hillies History of the Isle of Wight. Pt. i. p.6.,,  Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass. Winchester. (1846) p. 151.,,  Dennett MS. No 2. fig. iii.
Remarks: It seems uncertain whether this is "the small bronze instrument" said to have been found in a barrow on Shalecombe Down in 1816, or whether it was found about the same time on Arreton Down.  Mr. Crawford is inclined to the latter view.