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Title Of Article Chaper
The Late Bronze Age hoard from Brough-on-Humber: a re-assessment
Title Of Journal Book
The antiquaries journal
Volume
67
Issue
1
Pages
44528
Collation
Notes
Language Of Text
English
Language Of Summary
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
The discovery in 1719, at Brough-on-Humber (North Humberside, SE 93 26), of a hoard of Late Bronze Age weapons and casting matrices is described from contemporary manuscript and printed sources. The subsequent passage of its component artifacts through antiquarian collections is carefully documented, and four pieces are recognized as surviving in the British Museum. These comprise two rare two-piece casting molds together with one example of each casting product. One mold is a Welby, the other a Meldreth, type, formerly provenanced respectively to Yorkshire and Quantock Hills, Somersetshire. All are described in detail and suggestions made as to the casting techniques in which they were employed. The hoard, possibly originally comprising more artifacts than were recorded, was accompanied by a spearhead, a socketed chisel and a tanged awl or spike, now lost. These are attributed to Burgess's Ewart Park phase of LBA<sub>2</sub>, with parallels scattered throughout the northeast, east, southeast, and south of England. -- AATA
Keywords
Bronze Hoard Brough-on-Humber (North Humberside, England); Weapon Bronze Late Bronze Age; Bronze Casting Mold AATA
pub_id
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