2024-03-29T12:39:12+00:00https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/415674/format/qrcodehttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/415674/format/jsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/415674/format/xmlhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/415674/format/geojsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/415674/format/pdfhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/415674/format/rdfhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/415674415674WAW-052196PAS4CE05219001BEBUNIDENTIFIED OBJECT28.279.551.90.431Worcester City Museum12010T604BRONZE AGE-2200-1500Description: Gold decorated strip. Rectangular strip made with a sheet of gold and decorated with four embossed ribs. The edges of the body have been bent backwards. The strip has been severed at both ends as well as being bent, compressed and twisted.
Dimensions: Length 28.27 mm, width 9.55 mm, thickness 0.43 mm, mass 1.9 g.
Discussion: Similar narrow embossed strips are known from the pommels of daggers accompanying Early Bronze Age burials in Scotland (Henshall in Coles and Simpson 1968, 173-95; Hardaker 1974, 21-23. fig 6.; Taylor 1980, pl. 28a-f) but not however comparable to gold dagger fittings in contemporary burials southern England. Other Bronze Age gold strips found singly such as at Flixton, Yorkshire (British Museum 2004,0904.1a-b, Treasure Annual Report 2003, 16, no. 2) are broader and have more and narrower incised grooves. The annular ring from the Late Bronze Age hoard at Abia de la Obispalia, central Spain is comparable in form and dimensions but the grooves appear to have been incised rather than embossed (Almagro Gorbea 1974). Similarly, the Bronze Age annular ring from Armissan, southeast France may be comparable (Eluère 1981, 48-49, fig. 55). However. given the relative proximity of the Scottish finds, the object is tentatively dated to the Early Bronze Age.This can be considered as potential Treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act (2002 Amendment).
20/7/11 TVC valuation: £1102010-11-14 21:18:172023-10-26 11:01:13315Certain14111313PAS4CE05219001BEB231WAWGold10892FragmentBRONZE AGEBAx13712p0gjgrs6qb2BRONZE AGEBAx13712p0gjgrs6qb2Metal detectorCircaExactly46944729933207329241426Restricted AccessSO8065SO86NWShrawley CP26353115810304511WAW-052196.jpg461Bronze Age: Unidentified Object.Birmingham Museums Trust5images/abolton/West MidlandsEuropean RegionCountyWorcestershireDistrictMalvern HillsCivil Parish52.2847-2.29264Restricted AccessAcquired by museum after being declared Treasure97484