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Flag Fen platform and Fengate Power Station post alignment – the metalwork

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Coombs*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

Extract

For the purpose of discussion the platform and the alignment must be regarded as two separate sites which might in the future prove to have been related. Taken together the metal objects from the two sites represent a remarkable collection, not only by their context and numbers but also by the range of metals represented. Whilst the majority of the objects are in copper alloy (almost certainly bronze) there are also objects in iron, a white metal (some definitely tin, others, lead) and a single gold object.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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