Object: Casting waste
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum,donor Mr. T. Beacall.
Site: England,Shropshire,Battlefield,hoard found near a hedge when ploughing.
Hoard: Yes
Discovery context: battlefield
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 140
Width (mm): 36; 33; 40, 45
Thickness (mm): 9; 2
Weight (g): 595.35
Patina: greenish grey patina, gold bronze shows.
Surface: several thick iron-like stains. Very rough uneven work.
Composition: Copper 68.4; Tin 6.8; Iron 0.2; Lead 24.2; Silver 0.06 = 98.22,Analysis by Prof. C.O. Bannister, University of Liverpool.
Associations: One of 5 objects. 3 were exhibited to S of A, 16 Apl. 1863, by Saml. Wood Esq, FSA, & stated to have been found with a large number of bronze objects - most of these were melted. The 5 were No. J.40 in the Exhibn. of Shrops. Ants. 1898 & described as "Possibly grappling instruments affixed to scaling ladders."
Description: On the back are a few bright red patches as of enamel.
Publications: Figured in Proc. Soc. Ant. II (2nd S), p. 252; V(2), 431-2.,S.A.T. X (2nd S), p. 108, & III (3rd S), p. xxii.,Evans, B. I. p. 43, suggests no purpose for these 5 objects,but calls them "sickle like" p. 43, 405.