Metal
Metals are material, element, compound, or alloy that is hard, opaque, shiny and has good electrical and thermal conductivity, and is malleable. They can be hammered or cast into various shapes. Soft metals like gold and silver have been used longer, with metals such as copper, bronze, and iron coming later. Alloys are the creation of a new material from the combination of two or more elements in a certain proportion. Most of the time it is hard to tell the alloys apart from original elements, like in the case of copper. This is why they are grouped together below. Metals are usually used for tools, weapons, vessels, and statues.
Metals are material, element, compound, or alloy that is hard, opaque, shiny and has good electrical and thermal conductivity, and is malleable. They can be hammered or cast into various shapes. Soft metals like gold and silver have been used longer, with metals such as copper, bronze, and iron coming later. Alloys are the creation of a new material from the combination of two or more elements in a certain proportion. Most of the time it is hard to tell the alloys apart from original elements, like in the case of copper. This is why they are grouped together below. Metals are usually used for tools, weapons, vessels, and statues.
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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9325B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A]Finger ring and [B] earrings. Silver. Finger ring of plain silver wire. Earrings complicated, three sets of spiral lunar-ended coils hang one from the other. [drawing] |
| 9327 | (none) | (none) | B16801 | Beads Very small gold beds, small lapis, and silver disks: also, one long bugle of bloodstone. For order see Field Notes. | |
| 9328 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl Originally hemispherical, now much distorted [Type] III |
| 9329 | (none) | 1928,1010.370 | (none) | Copper pin Stem thickened to head [Type] I | |
| 9331 | (none) | (none) | B17468 | Copper axe [drawing] [Type] XIV | |
| 9332 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Hemispherical. The rim chipped. |
| 9333 | (none) | 1928,1009.179 | (none) | Gold binding. From a stick or sticks. The gold bands were set at intervals of about 005, round a stick of wood covered (between the bands) with a coat of gesso painted bright red. The longest piece is 008 long and shaped at the end. Thus: [drawing] Into the top end was set a broad-headed copper nail, fixed in wood: other pieces are 003 and 0016 wide: they are all fastened with minute gold nails. XXIX. [drawing] |
| 9334A | (none) | (none) | B17805 | Silver vases Spouted (A) In remarkably good condition, but the spout has been bent back touching the rim. (B) Exactly similar, but the lower part is broken and badly warped |
| 9334B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver vases Spouted (A) In remarkably good condition, but the spout has been bent back touching the rim. (B) Exactly similar, but the lower part is broken and badly warped |
| 9335 | (none) | 1928,1009.179 | (none) | Copper axe [drawing] [Type] XIV |
| 9336A | (none) | (none) | B17528A | [A-C] Copper harpoons (?) With single barbs and hollow sockets. Near the base of the sockets are the marks of a binding which presumably secured the head to the shaft [drawing] [type] VIII (4) | |
| 9336B | (none) | (none) | B17528B | [A-C] Copper harpoons (?) With single barbs and hollow sockets. Near the base of the sockets are the marks of a binding which presumably secured the head to the shaft [drawing] [type] VIII (4) |
| 9336C | (none) | (none) | B17528C | [A-C] Copper harpoons (?) With single barbs and hollow sockets. Near the base of the sockets are the marks of a binding which presumably secured the head to the shaft. [drawing] |
| 9337A | (none) | (none) | B17519 | [A-F] Copper lance-heads. The tang 045 long shows traces of the read shaft: the blade is a square section rod tapering to a point. [type] Spear 1 (new) |
| 9337B | (none) | 1928,1009.242 | (none) | [A-F] Copper lance-heads. The tang 045 long shows traces of the read shaft: the blade is a square section rod tapering to a point. [type] Spear 1 (new) |
| 9337C | (none) | 1928,1009.244 | (none) | [A-F] Copper lance-heads. The tang 045 long shows traces of the read shaft: the blade is a square section rod tapering to a point. [type] Spear 1 (new) |
| 9337D | (none) | 1928,1009.245 | (none) | [A-F] Copper lance-heads. The tang 045 long shows traces of the read shaft: the blade is a square section rod tapering to a point. [type] Spear 1 (new) |
| 9337E | (none) | 1928,1009.247 | (none) | [A-F] Copper lance-heads. The tang 045 long shows traces of the read shaft: the blade is a square section rod tapering to a point. [type] Spear 1 (new) |
| 9337F | (none) | 1928,1009.249 | (none) | [A-F] Copper lance-heads. The tang 045 long shows traces of the read shaft: the blade is a square section rod tapering to a point. [type] Spear 1 (new) |
| 9338 | (none) | 1928,1009.243 | (none) | Arrowheads(?) Plain spikes, hollow socketted [struck out: (VII)?] [struck out: type 5c] [type] 3 (new) | |
| 9339 | (none) | (none) | B16691 | Adze. Gold. With this were found 3 pieces of gold binding probably belonging to the handle, 2 round the middle of the shaft, and one at the end, and with the last a copper nail or stud as pommel: widths of bands 003, 004, and at bottom 0075 shaped: [drawing] Type 5 (new) | |
| 9340 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Reticule. Gold. The case decorated with the chased designs and applique filigree work, L. 008, W. of mouth 0012: In it, suspended from a silver ring, 3 gold instruments, tweezers, spoon, and prick. [drawing] |
| 9342A | (none) | (none) | B17525 | [A-B] Arrowheads Copper [drawing] 1:1 | |
| 9342B | (none) | (none) | B17526 | [A-B] Arrowheads. Copper. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 9351A | (none) | (none) | B16794 | Beads. Gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian. Three gold suspenders, 2 consisting of a gold ring attached to a single piece of gold foil which is a spacer for 3 necklaces. The third is a gold ring set with a gold flower pattern consisting of 12 petals represented only in outline. Also, 2 cones of spiral gold wire attached to a gold foil spacer for 2 strings. 3 Pear shaped gold beads pierced vertically. A piece of gold wire passes through the hole. At the top it is rolled over twice to form a spacer for 2 strings and at the bottom end twisted round once to prevent it from slipping. 3 lentoid lapis beads fitted with gold attachments similar to the above, except that one of the ha spacers for 3 instead of 2 strings. Also, 4 carnelians with similar gold attachments one a lentoid, 2 flattened ball beads, and 1 flattened double conoid. 5 gold pears (slender type) perforated at apex: 6 large gold double conoids and 10 small. A gold triangle consisting of 6 rows of minute ball beads, 2 lines of minute gold beads soldered together as above are both spacers, 1 for six the other for seven strings. 2 fluted gold ball beads and 1 fluted pear shaped bead. 8 minute gold ring beads. 26 carnelian lentoids. 5 carnelian bugle beads. 5 carnelian double conoids. 4 or 5 carnelian minute ring & ball beads. 2 lapis leaf shaped beads [drawing] thick in section. 7 lapis large double conoids. 32 lapis small double conoids. 2 ribbed conical lapis beads with a straight piece projecting from the base. 4 pear shaped lapis beads. About 50 smaller lapis beads, ring beads, ball beads, bugle beads, etc. |
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