Object: Boss
Classification: Convex 1 Loop for Attachment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Brentford Public Library,Layton Collection, 0.1485
Site: England,Greater London,Brentford,Label: above G. W. Dock towards Middlesex shore; Bed of Thames; 23 June 1864
Discovery context: river
Parish: Brentford
County: Greater London
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1864
Width (mm): 158
Surface: Slight encrusted dark golden bronze, water worn, with patches of dark green patina.
Other: Width: 158mm x 155mm
Description: Cracked and broken with a good many holes. Also bent. Made of bronze about 5mm thick. Loop at back. In the middle is a disc loosely rivetted on. The heads of the 4 rivets are round. They are set in jagged holes. These rivets are fastened to central plate and are not visible from the front. There are two each side of loop.
Publications: R.A. Smith, Archaeologia, Vol. 69, 1917-18, p. 16.
Remarks: OK