Long round bronze bar with knob at one end and expanded at the other and broken off (traces apparently of teeth)

Collection type: Object
Description: Long round bronze bar with knob at one end and expanded at the other and broken off (traces apparently of teeth)
Geographical reference: Ireland, Republic of
Europe > Northern Europe > Ireland, Republic of; "Ireland": ie Ireland or Northern Ireland (UK)
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Bronze Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal
Dimensions: Length x Width x Height: max 142 x 21 x 13 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.79.140 PR no.: 118/ 1639
Research and responses: Pitt Rivers was in Ireland [serving in the Army] from 1862-66, this object may have been obtained during this period [Bowden, 1991: 60-4] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Related Documents File - RDF contains notes found in a drawer with museum specimens in January 1991. They seem to be notes made by ES Thomas when cataloguing this section of the Pitt Rivers Collection. [The notes cover all objects in the 1884.79. section] [LM]