Object: Casting Waste
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell (Southend on Sea),276/130
Site: England,Essex,Leigh,Fleming Avenue,Prittle Brook,29.1.26,(found by workmen)
Parish: Leigh
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Weight (g): 662.67
Associations: A bronze founder's hoard.
Description: Weights: A: 662.67 gms; B: 5.31 gms; C: 287.04 gms
Remarks: The sketches give an idea of the large and smaller pieces of bronze found with the hoard. There are about 100 pieces of raw metal, together weighing 13 1/2 lbs.