Bronze Age complex anvil, cast copper alloy, with two beaks/spikes at right-angles. The larger beak/spike is triangular openwork with a gabled work surface on the straight end and a longitudinal swage or groove of V - shaped profile on both sides (Length 53.5mm, Width at straight end 19mm, thickness 13mm). The other beak/spike is collared where it springs from one side of the broad end of the triangular beak, is oval-sectioned and tapers to a point (projects 33mm, width/thickness at collar 14 x 10mm). Surface corroded and pitted. Weighs 43.44 g.

Ehrenberg (1981) listed only 36 examples of Bronze Age anvils from Europe (inc. 4 from Britain) in her catalogue and, although others have been discovered since then, they remain a rare class of object. This example is of complex form with two beaks and a range of work surfaces, see examples illustrated in Ehrenberg (1981) fig.2, although none is openwork.

Later Middle - Late Bronze Age (c.1200-700 BC).