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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy medieval swivel, only one of the D-shaped copper-alloy loops of this swivel survive. A second D-shaped loop would have been attached to the first via a bolt, also missing, swivels are multi-purpose objects. This example has a oval sectioned loop and its terminals are shaped like animal heads, each head has two tiny ears, a long forehead, bulbous eyes and a flaring straight ended snout each head grasps in its mouth the straight perforated bar of the D-shaped loop. The animals are romanesque in style. This swivel loop measures 31.23mm in width externally and 18.98mm in height, it is 24.12mm by 13.65mm internally. | Subjects: | swivel | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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