- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Gilt bronze fragment
- Long description
- Copper-alloy gilt fragment with rectangular profile. [CG [Excav. PR] 24/01/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Kent Shepway Folkestone Castle Hill [Caesar's Camp] "From trenches in Citadel"
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Medieval
- Date collected
- 1878 June 6
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Copper Metal, Material Gilt Metal, Process Gilded
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 3 mm, Width: max 5 mm, Length: max 47 mm, Weight 3 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.138.30 Other numbers: 29 PR no.: ?/ 12191
- Research and responses
1884.138.29 and 1884.138.30 appear to have once been one object that has now broken. When joined they look like the illustration drawn by Pitt-Rivers. [CG [Excav. PR] 24/01/2013]
Described by Pitt-Rivers (1883: 464) as "Copper gilt object, evidently a fragment of a piece resembling figs. 29 and 30, found 20 feet (6.096 m.) deep in excavating the Well, June 6th.", and illustrated as Fig. 32 on Plate XIX [CG [Excav. PR] 24/01/2013] [Dan Hicks 20/03/2013
Further information and research notes on this site compiled in the 1970s by Revd. AH Gibson are held at Folkestone Library (see correspondence and copies of Gibson's notes in RDF) [JC 7.11.96]
- Associated publications
- Pitt-Rivers, A.H.L.F. 1883. Excavations at Caesar’s Camp, near Folkestone conducted in 1878. Archaeologia 47: 429-465 - illustrated as Fig. 32 on Plate XIX. [Dan Hicks 20/03/2013]
Search terms: Tool, Unidentified Object