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Description: | Unidentified object made from a flat piece of copper alloy. It consists of two flaring and curving elements joined by three short struts. One flaring and curving element has a more gentle curve, and tapers from 10.5 to 7.5 mm wide. It is decorated with two longitudinal grooves with oblique grooves in between One complete hole retains a copper-alloy ?rivet; the shank of this does not project beyond the reverse of the object, and the 'head' is a flat lozenge with each corner extended into a bent-over claw. The claws may have held some kind of setting. Each end of this element has broken at another hole. Each of the three struts is 4-5 mm wide, and has engraved decoration.There is a longitudinal groove near one edge, with tiny multiple grooves between the groove and the edge itself; a pair of widely spaced grooves runs from the longitudinal groove to the opposite edge to form three sides of a square. The other curving element is more strongly curved, and tapers from 10.5 to 4 mm wide. For most of its length it has the same decoration as the other curving element. At the wider end, however, instead of a fourth strut, there is a half-strut with a blob in its outer corner. This looks a little like an animal head, but may be fortuitously broken. There is a black patina over green corrosion with purplish corrosion beneath that. Whatever this object is, it has a distinctly post-medieval feel.
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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