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Description: | Copper alloy clip. Heavy hollow cast piece with an iron attachment, perhaps a shaft c.7mm across at one end. From this point it splays out to a maximum width of 25mm and splits into two 4mm thick flaps; one of these narrows to a blunt point and is possibly broken here, the other has a rounded end. Both sides have strong cast curvilinear decoration. The gap betweeen the two flaps is about 4mm and contains a corroded surface layer, probably a solder material and no continuation of the iron shaft. This gap is curved rather than straight, suggesting that it may have fitted over the rim of a vessel, with the rounded side on the inside and the pointed piece outside the vessel. This object was taken to the BM for consultation and JD Hill has confirmed that although it is without parallel it is indeed most likely to be a clip. Furthermore, as it is larger and heavier than shield binding or scabard binding clips and clearly fits around something circular with a diameter of perhaps 10-14cm and has 'teeth' inside it to allow it extra grip it is probably from a vessel. JD Hill believes that it would have most likely have been from a vessel of a single sheet of wood (steamed?), such vessel fragments have been excavated from the Middle Iron Age context at Wardy Hill, near Ely. An alternative suggestion is that it could have been used in a simliar way for other objects such as boxes (JD Hill pers comm 2003). | Subjects: | Clip | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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