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Late Bronze Age bronze ingot
Bronze Age possible bronze ingot fragment
Dimensions: maximum surviving length 18.2mm; maximum surviving width 15.5mm; thickness 7.5mm; weight (prior to conservation) 6.5g.
This is a small broken fragment of a possible ingot, showing an irregular convex curved shaped edge section, with a flat base and a slightly convex-domed and undulating top surface. This is likely to have originally been approximately oval or circular in shape when complete. The flat base, moderate thickness and lack of convex side section (i.e. thin at edge and deepening to the centre) indicate this was not of a classic plano-convex ingot form, although it could sit within a more generic or amorphic bun or disc ingot range. There are two soil-covered but uneroded breaks, suggesting fragmentation in antiquity. The fragment has a grey-green patina.
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Site Name: Llanmaes Community, Vale of Glamorgan,
Notes: Please treat Ordnance Survey grid reference to precise find-spot as CONFIDENTIAL. Find is to be referred to as Llanmaes Community. Maximum permitted findspot accuracy to be released to the public is to the 4 fig. OS grid reference SS 98 69.