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METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Unique ID: SUSS-21BF55
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A Late Bronze Age casting jet with a single feeder. The upper edge is mostly rounded, but has an uneven surface with two air bubbles burst. There are casting sprues intact on both sides, but the most prominent is at the top. The sides taper to the rounded lower edge, but with no traces of the runner extending further. It is 35.25mm long, the diameter at the top is 29mm and it weighs 75g.
Notes:
Found by a detectorist in 7th Feb 1981. No other contextual information is available regarding the location of the findspot. The collection was handed to an amateur archaeologist as the finder moved abroad.
Class: Casting jet
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 1000 BC
Date to: Circa 800 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35.25 mm
Weight: 75 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 7th February 1981
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: West Sussex (County)
District: Horsham (District)
To be known as: Storrington
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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