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Description: | Hinged plate made from gilded copper alloy. It is rectangular, now bent but originally c. 33 mm long by 22 mm wide. There are two rivet holes at the attachment end, one of which contains a separate copper-alloy rivet with knob head and burred-over end; this rivet measures 8 mm from top to bottom. Around the rivet holes are traces of annulet stamping and gilding, both of which appear to have originally covered the whole surface. The other end has had two slots cut, and then has been folded around an iron hinge bar, some of which survives. There is a third rivet hole just beyond the end of the folded-under part. This object cannot be a buckle plate, as the three hinge loops formed include a central one which takes up the space needed by a pin slot. It was probably from a box, furniture or similar.
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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