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Description: | Unidentified object made from copper alloy. At one end is a flat plate with one end probably broken; its elements are a short 4 mm wide length with bevelled edges, then an 8 mm wide section decorated with two transverse grooves, then a 5 mm wide area with bevelled edges, then lastly a rounded 9 mm wide area with bevelled edges. This takes up nearly two-thirds of the 28.5 mm length of the object, and has the only fixing device, a small iron rivet to one side at the start of the final rounded lobe . The other third is a thicker, nearly three-dimensional area which could be a very stylised animal head. It tapers from 6 to 4 mm wide, is D-shaped in cross-section and has three transverse ridges. The final ridge is split into two and may be broken. The reverse is flat. The object has a grey patina, perhaps a white-metal coating, and underneath this is pale green corrosion. The date and function is unknown.
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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