Object: Tang
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum,donor Mr. T. Beacall.
Site: England,Shropshire,Battlefield,hoard found near a hedge when ploughing.
Hoard: yes
Discovery context: battlefield
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 93
Width (mm): 56; 65
Thickness (mm): 10; 8
Weight (g): 212.65
Surface: very rough & iron stained.
Associations: One of 5 objects. 3 were exhibited to S of A, 16 Apl. 1863, by Saml. Wood Esq, FSA, & stated to have been found with a large number of bronze objects - most of these were melted. The 5 were No. J.40 in the Exhibn. of Shrops. Ants. 1898 & described as "Possibly grappling instruments affixed to scaling ladders."
Publications: Figured in Proc. Soc. Ant. II (2nd S), p. 252,S.A.T. X (2nd S), p. 108, & III (3rd S), p. xxii.,Evans, B. I. p. 43, suggests no purpose for these 5 objects,but calls them "sickle like" p. 43, 405.