Copper

Copper is a metal that occurs naturally.  Its earliest use is dated to aroud 9000BC.  The beginnings of copper work required hammering copper ore, then applying heat.  Once copper could be melted, other elements were added creating alloys.  Copper can be hammered, or cast and is  reddish-orange to bluish-green in color.  Chemical testing is needed to distinguish between Copper alloys, pure copper, and bronze.  

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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)
	(none)	30-12-292	(none)	B18011	(none)
	9604B	(none)	1928,1010.290	(none)	4 Silver Finger Rings [A-D] 2 1/2 coils.
	14406	31-17-66	(none)	(none)	Beads. Quantity of lapis double conoids.
	11525	30-12-309	(none)	(none)	Copper axe. Type A3(new) [drawing]
	9300C	(none)	(none)	B17017.3	Copper Bangles Plain thick wire, penannular
	10543	(none)	1928,1010.73	(none)	Copper Dagger Broken in 2 pieces Same type as U.10540 Type 7 (new)
	10540	(none)	1928,1010.74	(none)	Copper Dagger Broken in 3 pieces Short tang with 3 rivets on either side. [drawing] Type 7 (new)
	10345	(none)	1928,1010.55	(none)	Copper Pin With lapis ball head Broken in three pieces Type V
	10402	(none)	1928,1010.357	(none)	Copper Pin With lapis ball head capped with silver (broken) Type V
	9993	(none)	1928,1010.53	(none)	Copper Pin With lapis ball head set in silver Shaft broken Type V
	10099	(none)	(none)	B17486	Copper Pin With plain ball head [drawing] Type IV
	10193	(none)	(none)	B17595	Copper Reticule Manicure tools attached to a ring Tip missing Normal type
	9299	(none)	(none)	B17014	Copper reticule Normal type
	11573	(none)	1929,1017.503	(none)	Copper Spearhead poker type. [Type]VI
	11576A	(none)	1929,1017.40	(none)	Earring. Copper & gold. [A] A large coil of copper with lunate ends, inside which was a smaller [B] similar one of gold: this probably hung from the former. (with this are 3 largish facetted lentoid beads, 2 of lapis, one of silver, from the same grave).
	17813F	32-40-442	(none)	(none)	Group. From one burial. (A) [A and K-L] 3 gold frontlets. (B) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (C) [C and M] Two gold hair-rings, spirally coiled with lunate ends, with one of them [N] a silver ring. (D) Beads: a string of very small fluted gold balls and carnelian balls and one very thin lapis bugle with gold caps. (E) Beads: gold balls, agate, carnelian, marble and jasper; long bugles, flattened lentoids, disks and lentoids. (F) [F and O] Two gold bracelets, of thin gold bent over copper wire. (G) Silver bracelet, plain wire. (H) [H and I] Copper bracelets, 2, plain wire. (J) Copper axe, thus: [reference to drawing] a copy of the old type but not cast: hammered and the socket made by bending. Type S10. [drawing]
	17813J	(none)	1935,0113.408	(none)	Group. From one burial. (A) [A and K-L] 3 gold frontlets. (B) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (C) [C and M] Two gold hair-rings, spirally coiled with lunate ends, with one of them [N] a silver ring. (D) Beads: a string of very small fluted gold balls and carnelian balls and one very thin lapis bugle with gold caps. (E) Beads: gold balls, agate, carnelian, marble and jasper; long bugles, flattened lentoids, disks and lentoids. (F) [F and O] Two gold bracelets, of thin gold bent over copper wire. (G) Silver bracelet, plain wire. (H) [H and I] Copper bracelets, 2, plain wire. (J) Copper axe, thus: [reference to drawing] a copy of the old type but not cast: hammered and the socket made by bending. Type S10. [drawing]
	12073A	(none)	1929,1017.295	(none)	Group: (A) Beads: lapis lazuli double conoids small. (B) earring, silver 2 1/2 coils.
	10827B	(none)	1928,1010.338	(none)	Tomb Group A. Copper helmet. B. Copper spearhead, poker type, tip missing. It is not quite of the normal type in that the section is diamond instead of square the tang, type I. variant. C. Copper spearhead, no ribs or tang, tip missing. Type V. [drawing]
	10825B	(none)	1928,1010.320	(none)	Tomb Group. A. Copper helmet on [D] head. B. Copper spearhead. Type IV. [drawing] C. Copper spearhead, poker type Type I.
	10744A	(none)	(none)	B16937	[A-B] 2 Copper Bangles Single coil Loose ends
	10756A	(none)	(none)	B16923A	[A-B] 2 Gold Bracelets
	10756B	(none)	(none)	B16923B	[A-B] 2 Gold Bracelets
	8842D	(none)	(none)	B17560.4	[A-B] 2 silver earrings. [C-D] 2 finger rings - one copper, one silver. 1 1/2 coils of silver finger ring. The rest single coils, ends detached. [drawing]
	13798A	31-17-228	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 spearheads. Copper. Poker form. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]

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