ferrule
- Museum number
- WG.2224
- Description
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Copper alloy ferrule fragment.
- Production date
- 1140BC-1020BC (c.)
- Dimensions
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Length: 103 millimetres
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Weight: 30.80 grammes
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Thickness: 12.50 millimetres
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Width: 14 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The Broadward Hoard was found in July 1867 during drainage operations in a marshy field called “Lower Moor” near to Broadward Hall in the Clun Valley on the Shropshire/Herefordshire border.
Bronze objects were found about 5-6 feet down, together with large quantities of animal bones. They were lying in a “confused heap” and showed a generally corroded and oxidised state. The 79 bronze objects and fragments from Broadward in the British Museum are only a part of the original find. Others have been lost when labourers took them, while a whole boxful retained at Broadward Hoard has since disappeared.
Furthermore, the ditch filled with water so rapidly that the site could not be examined properly.
There is some evidence for a second discovery of bronze implements near Broadward Hoard about 1912-13 though this has not been confirmed.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1909
- Acquisition notes
- In 1872 A.W. Franks presented an assortment to the museum (nos. 1872, 3-29, 1-10) and a larger collection was given by C. H. Read in 1902 (1902, 5-15, 1-22). Finally, more pieces were acquired as part of the Greenwell Collection (WG 2203-2232).
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- WG.2224