Gilt bronze fragment

Collection type: Object
Description: Gilt bronze fragment
Long description: Fragment of a copper-alloy rod. [CG [Excav. PR] 24/01/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Kent Shepway Folkestone Castle Hill [Caesar's Camp] "Outer rampart" "Seam of"
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
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Gilt Metal, Process Gilded
Dimensions: Thick: max 2 mm, Width: max 4 mm, Length: max 27 mm, Weight 1 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.138.32.2 Other numbers: 32 PR no.: ?/ 12191
Research and responses: 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. [Dan Hicks 20/03/2013]

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