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Description: | Rounded (non-planar) lozengiform cast copper-alloy object, terminating in a wide, blunt, slightly curved tip. The obverse is decorated with a group of 4 equal-sized large incised circular rings and incomplete circular rings, positioned centrally at the wider end of the object. There is a full ring at the top of the group and one directly below this. The two incomplete rings are positioned either side of the two full circles. In the centre of each of the four rings is a crescent which adjoins one edge of the ring and nearly reaches the other side of the ring. At the centre of the group of rings is a smaller ring. A further three smaller rings are placed in the gaps between each of the larger rings, although not in the bottom right hand corner of the group.There is a series of 7 slightly curved parallel lines (positioned above each other like rungs) below the group of rings along the centre of the object. Below this series is a small, solid circle. There are two further series of 7 lines, each running along the sloping sides of the object from just below the two incomplete rings (level with the lower full circle) towards the 'tip' of the object. A curved transverse rim band runs across the wider end of the object. The transverse is flat with one attachment.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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