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Record ID: ASHM-248BB5
Object type: CAULDRON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thick, heavy, cast copper-alloy lug from a Late Bronze Age cauldron, c. 1200-1100 BC. The object is strongly curved with moulded corrugated ribs as decoration, which flare outwards at one end. The underside of the thinner section has a break through a thick section of the copper alloy, where the lug would have attached beneath a rim clip to the vessel wall. Maximium thickness - 9.1mm, minimum thickness - 3.9mm.
See similar examples on this database, including SUSS-8438EC and especially SF-832744, which retains some of the vessel wall (sheet bronze) and a suspension loop. In this reco…
Created on: Sunday 7th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Childrey', grid reference and parish protected.
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