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Description: | A possibly incomplete copper-alloy unidentifed object. Consisting of a rectangular shaft, measuring 74.9mm in length, 5.5mm in width, at the widest point and 3.1mm in thickness at its thickest point.
The shaft tapers towards one end and becomes thinner at both of its terminals. The wider terminal is decorated on the front face with two transverse grooves and an incised cross. There are two transverse grooves across the narrower terminal too, no decoration can be seen on the back face. The narrower end of the shaft is very flat and bends backwards slightly, due to wear it is impossible to tell if it was originally bent in this way and even whether this terminal is complete.
No parallel could be found for this object, it could possibly be a Roman scoop of some kind, with the flattened narrower end acting as a scoop. It could therefore concievably date from the Roman period onwards. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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