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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy unidentified object. This object consists of an curvilinear rectangular cross-sectioned shaft, measuring 32.3mm in length and 5.5mm in width and 6.6mm in thickness. Two longitudinal border grooves can be seen running along the edges of the outer face of the shaft. Such grooves may have also have existed on the other faces, these are however more worn and no decoration can be seen. One end of this shaft is incomplete due to an old break and the other is integral to a curvilinear flat roughly triangular shaped fragment, with old breaks on two of the three edges. This fragment measures 17.8mm in length and 21.1mm in width. On its outer face, from which the shaft projects, near to the broken edges there are the remains of roughly triangular shaped recesses, which appear to have the remains of decomposed enamel within them. The original colour of this possible enamel is no longer clear. The back face of this fragment has a central rectangular shaped slight recess.
No parallel has been found for this object, especially due to its incomplete nature, however, due to the use of enamel and the fact that it was discovered in association with other Roman and Iron Age finds it is most likely to be Iron Age or Roman in date. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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