Object: Socketed Terminal
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London
Site: Cornwall,St. Ives,Lelant,(Lanant)
Parish: Leland
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SW 53 37
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 59
Width (mm): 6.5
Surface: Green patina, parts speckled with pale green dry sur., esp. at end of rods.
Associations: 1a. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: EL 59mm; diam. s. mouth 21.5 x 16.5; d. terminal bulb 14.7-15.7; W. projecting rod 6.5 x 6.5; D.S. 47.5,Typology: both not circ. in section, lower socket sl. elliptical, upper socket markedly so - original?; square-sectioned rod from base of bulb - poss. stump of a spike; uncertain whether tool or terminal,Manufacture: v. sl. traces of cg. flash - mainly groove; small hmks. on side of bulb,Condition: end of rod prob. broken in ant.; fractures at mouth dark brown - prob. recent; main break gold-flecked brown - recent; cruching of socket mouth likely - pres. anc.,Attached Material: little yellow sand adhering
Publications: a) Hitchins, 1806, pl. II.2
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink. inscr.: 'B.6' (on both halves); small rect. s/o label - printed '2',PIF, AFI; DF(C), SI; CI; Rec.: SN Jan 79; Source: MV; Old card: 1