Bronze Age Hammer find

[mattdiver]

Hi folks. I'm gonna stick my neck out and say this find that I found yesterday is a late Bronze Age hammer. It was found in pasture field about 8 inch deep on top of a hill with good panoramic view. Found North west England. I have found Bronze Age finds about a mile away from this site. It is my third visit to new area of land. I cannot find a parallel to the find but know the hammer is made of bronze and believe post Iron Age tools would be made of Iron.it weighs approximately 150 grams. I would appreciate help with this one please. I will report this find with Finds Liason. Thanks.

 

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[ARC]

I am now actually leaning that it IS a super rare find...
Originally the square hole threw me for a "loop"... literally...
Last night before I went to bed I poked in my library...
Which is almost solely nautical in nature...
And looked in any books with drawing and pics of shipwrights tools...
There are a few that resemble...
RESEMBLE... but not it.
The one pictured on relevantchairs site is the only "dead ringer" so far.
... you are gonna love this...
This is a picture of a Viking Blacksmiths grave...
NOTICE anything > ? freakin squares man.

 

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[UnderMiner]

Neat! It's certainly at least several hundred years ago. But bronze and copper pieces are funny in that they look pretty much the same whether they've been in the ground for 300 years or 3000 years. Neat find regardless since I consider anything over 200 years old ancient!

 

[RockRaven]

Although the shape does resemble a cobbler's hammer on the side with the round striking face, the angle of this face as well as what essentially amounts to a cross peen on the opposite side would make me lean very strongly towards this hammer being a smith tool. A good chance, if it is bronze, is that is may not be a "blacksmith" tool as this refers to the black metal, iron. Absolutely amazing find, cannot wait to find out more about this amazing item. Excellent and accurate information from relevantchair, strong agreement with his assessment of the item resembling the modern "engineer's hammer".

 

[Silver Searcher]

I believe this hammer to be a copper hammer, not bronze. A Viking blacksmiths hammer was iron, not bronze. Possibly a leather makers hammer, also it's small and light...old but not ancient. Hope I'm wrong though.. a cool find.

SS

 

[PeteWmass]

this hammer looks too old for this - *but* - I found a bronze wrench once - turns out it was for working with gas pipes/fixtures - bronze won't cause a spark - but they did have whole sets of tools made in bronze for that purpose - not outside the realm of possibility...but this particular hammer does look a bit crude for 19th century....