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Description: | This incomplete object, overall 33mm long, is formed of wound copper-alloy wires. Four rods of diameter 1mm each are laid side-by-side and are bound together as a flat strip over 25mm by a finer bronze wire repeatedly wound around them. At one end the four strands emerge, one of which soon terminates, and the other three of which are curved over, and then all three are broken together with a modern break, showing coppery hues on their broken surface. At the other end the two central wires of the strip form a loop(diameter 4.5mm), showing that they are in fact parts of the same wire, and have been introduced to form this loop. One of the side wires is enrolled two and a half times to form a flat spiral. The corresponding rod on the other side is broken off, but the outer binding wire passes around it and then into the central loop where its end is tucked back into the bound cable. Despite possible resemblances to early Anglo-Saxon types of wrist-clasp, this seems much more likely to be a post-mediaeval wire-wound object, as the reference below will indicate and suggest. | Subjects: | ?for chatelaine | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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