Object: Ferrule
Period: Bronze Age
Year of discovery: NA
Remarks: Circumstances cont'd: down to the base of his spoil tip; at the time he considers that he was definitely extracting fresh undisturbed ballast; at about the same time a Viking sword was retrieved from the same area, it came up lying across the teeth of his machine's bucket; in this area Copper had noticed pockets of black clay/mud - but could not say whether any had taken a linear course.