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Description: | Late Roman or early Early Medieval cast copper alloy door-knob type spear butt. Hollow cylindrical shaft, tapering slightly (diameter at top 19.6mm, diameter at base c.15mm) to where it joins the hollow expanded sub-circular terminal (circular in plan, oval in section); roughly one third of this terminal is broken off. Little of the original fine mid brown-green surface survives - two small pacthes at the neck preserve a triple fine incised-line border. Light/mid breen exposed surface. Length (height) 55.7mm, diameter (base) 39.0mm, diameter (neck) 19.6mm, thickness (wall at neck) 2.5mm, weight 67.4g.
A number of other such objects have been recorded on the database, including HAMP-EFC828, GLO-41E0E8, SUR-381972 & DENO-7DF354.
Note that Griffiths, Philpott & Egan 2007 ("Meols: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast", University of Oxford, monograph 68) publish a similar object (no.391, p70 & 75, Pl.11), although with proportionally longer shaft and smaller terminal (total length of obejct 91mm, diameter of the circular terminal 19mm), identifying it as a Viking drinking horn terminal, and listing several parallels from ireland, and Norway, including one from a female grave at Gjonnes, Vestfold (pictured in the publication; has similar incised line border (although double, not triple) to the example recorded here). | Subjects: | door knob butt | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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