armband fragment - Cu Alloy - Iron Age - Switzerland

Christian. Degrigny (HE-Arc CR, Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland) & Naima. Gutknecht (HE-Arc CR, Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

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credit: Service archéologique état de Fribourg

Draft of a bronze wrist band, fragment, recto

credit: Service archéologique état de Fribourg

Draft of a bronze wrist band, fragment, verso

Fragment of a deburred bronze ring with irregular curvature; lower surface with a central rib and hammer marks; upper surface flat; triangular section. Interpretation: rough cast iron ring in the process of being shaped.

Jewellery

Bussy/Pré de Fond, Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

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Iron Age

First Iron Age (Ha D2-3)

Soil

Service archéologique de l Etat de Fribourg

Service archéologique de l Etat de Fribourg

BZ 11

Complementary information

This wristband draft is part of a group of four wristband drafts that were found in a bronze workshop. They are documented and analyzed together.

credit: Service archéologique état de Fribourg / Naima Gutknecht, He-arc

Wrist band with localisation of the detail and documented area

credit: Naima Gutknecht, He-arc

Detail of the surface showing the documented stratum

The schematic representation below gives an overview of the corrosion layers encountered on the object from a first visual macroscopic observation.

Stratigraphy observed on the wristband

Cu Alloy

Annealed after (hot) rolling

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Cu

Pb, Sn

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