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Description: | Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It is long and hollow, and apparently broken at both ends. Each end is rectangular in section, almost imperceptibly flaring from 8 x 11 mm at the broken ends to a maximum 9 x 11.5 mm. In the middle, the object expands into a disc, 22 mm in diameter but still 9 mm thick. On one face this disc is decorated with a border groove around a sunken centre. The sunken area has a reserved snowflake-like pattern consisting of six elaborately cut-out arms. These are not on quite the same alignment as the rectangular ends. In between the snowflake the sunken area is gilded. The reverse is flat and undecorated. Inside, both the rectangular ends and the disc are hollow. The patina is a pale green with tiny flecks of grey or silvery metal, perhaps the remains of a white-metal coating. On the snowflake pattern the grey patina survives complete. The function and date of this object are unknown, but a similar (though smaller) example has been found in the same parish (sf361/7922). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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