Object: Casting waste
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,No. B.33 Cambridge Antiquarian Society Cat.,84.139
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach Fen,1862
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1862
Length (mm): 50
Width (mm): 31
Thickness (mm): 31
Weight (g): 184
Patina: In streaks - red and green.
Associations: This and 6 other lumps found with a damaged socketed celt.
Description: The red patina looks like copper when scraped and the green may be tin.