Rights Holder: Oxfordshire County Council
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Unique ID: BERK-26E0E5
Object type certainty: Certain
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A large, roughly rectangular lump of bronze slag, airholes throughout and some elements of the raw copper sulphide are visible (a green-blue colour). The slag has a good deep green patina, similar to that seen on some local Bronze Age metalwork, so it may date from this period. If this lump of slag is indeed Bronze Age, it is interesting that it has survived and was not re-melted, as it is quite an amount of bronze.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa 2400 BC
Date to: Circa AD 1950
Quantity: 1
Length: 64.1 mm
Width: 43.09 mm
Thickness: 18.23 mm
Weight: 168.8 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 11th April 2010
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Other reference: 2010.015
4 Figure: SP6904
Four figure Latitude: 51.73047772
Four figure longitude: -1.0023168
1:25K map: SP6904
1:10K map: SP60SE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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