Record ID: LIN-946F12 - BRONZE AGE unidentified object

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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT

Unique ID: LIN-946F12

Object type certainty: Certain

A resized image of Bronze Age gold strip

An incomplete strip of sheet gold. The sheet is rectangular in plan, around 0.5mm in thickness and decorated with eleven grooves. Treasure reference number 2011 T459.

Similar multi-grooved strips of a Bronze Age date are known from throughout Britain including in the British Museum collection from Flixton, Yorkshire (2004,0904.1a-b, Treasure Annual Report 2003, 16. no. 2) and Ravencliff Cave, Derbyshire (British Museum 1906,1224.1-2) as well as recent finds such as Ansley, Warwickshire and West Acre Norfolk (Treasure Annual Report 2007, 47-48). A very similar strip from Sproxton, North Yorkshire is recorded on the PAS database as LVPL-83FE92. There is also a similar grooved strip from The Hamel, Oxford, Oxfordshire excavated from a layer which yielded Beaker pottery of the Early Bronze Age (Palmer 1980, 124-134). See also a similar undated but similarly decorated strip of sheet gold from Norfolk, recorded on the PAS database as NMS-BE02A4.

References:
Palmer, N. 1980. A Beaker burial and Medieval Tenemants in the The Hamel, Oxford. Oxoniensia 45, 124-134
Treasure Annual Report 2003
Treasure Annual Report 2007

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Treasure details

Treasure case tracking number: 2011T459

Chronology

Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Period from: BRONZE AGE [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Period to: BRONZE AGE [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa 2150 BC
Date to: Circa 800 BC

Dimensions and weight

Length: 29 mm
Width: 10 mm
Thickness: 0.5 mm
Weight: 1.19 g
Quantity: 1

Materials and construction

Primary material: Gold [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Fragment [scope notes | view all attributed records]

Spatial data

Region: East Midlands
County: Lincolnshire
District: West Lindsey
To be known as: Corringham

Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 21st July 2011

Personal details

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Recorded by: Adam Daubney - [ view all attributed records]
Identified by: Adam Daubney - [view all attributed records]

Other reference numbers

Treasure case number: 2011T459

References cited

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