Bronze Age Gold

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Bead made of gold wire wound around a shale core from the Early Bronze Age burial of a woman at Preshute G1a

middle bronze age hoard from Inshoch Wood with a portable anvil, hammerhead and scrap spearhead (HER id MHG7060). This is on display in Inverness Museum.

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Probably an early Bronze Age anvil stone dating to between c2100 and c1500 BC.. It reminiscent of the Early Bronze Age anvil stones from a smiths grave at Lunteren in the Netherlands; see

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Bronze Age chisel. Small chisel with flanged and flattened end and square section butt end; rectangular profile to hafted end. See PAS Annual Report 2006, p31 for similar artefact.

Copper alloy awl and whetstone found within a pit from the late Early/Middle Bronze Age (1800-1500 BC). The items were part of a remarkable collection of flints and tools deposited on the base of an oven feature. This 'tool kit' may have been deliberately placed in the ground as a votive offering. From the excavations at Horton, Berkshire. For more information about this project visit: www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/horton2013

bronze anvil, Vadsby, Netherlands

The BAC is a place to discuss the history and archaeology of the Bronze Age

Photography tools Lake Neuchâtel (Switzerland) showing the tools of a Bronze Age metalworker. Note the anvil stone still in his block from Möringen (Gross 1883

Probable chisel with a tang that is flat and rectangular in section.