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Description: | An incomplete writing lead and the remains of a socketed bone case. The proximal end of the round-section lead is missing. The case is split longitudinally along the socket for the lead and is missing the open end. Externally it is flat-faced and with rounded corners. The lead is lodged tightly in the case. The change of angle at which the lead narrows to its point is well defined, with a hollow oval channel, a possible casting fault, showing that the lead was never trimmed and is likely to be unused. The distance from the angle to the point is 5.5mm. Lead diameter 5mm, surviving length 31mm. Surviving length of case 57mm, thickness 9mm, width (if split down the centre line) 22mm. In the absence of the distal end this cannot be allocated to Biddle??s classification (Biddle 1990,735-8), and a date cannot be given The fresh condition of the metal suggests it is more likely to be post-medieval or later. At least two other examples of a writing lead in a fragment of bone case have been found in Norfolk, in East Walton (HER 30041) and Wiveton (HER 44442). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Crawford, Becky | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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