Object: Casting waste
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,180.96,Purchased by Colchester Corporation 1896,(Trans Essex Arch Soc. NS.VI.173)
Site: England,Essex,Southchurch
Parish: Southchurch
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 31.89, 67.33, 7.96, 31.89, 13.67, 14.17, 31.89
Associations: Part of a Bronze Founders' Hoard of 62 pieces, composed of fragments of the following - 24 socketed celts, 6 swords, 4 spearheads, 2 knife sockets, 1 sword chape, 1 tang of sickle, also 15 lumps of metal, 7 fragments of undecisive shapes, 1 socketed gauge, and 1 gauge socket.