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Description: | Ornate jew's harp made from a brassy-looking copper alloy. The head is large (45 mm wide) and is basically rounded, with a basically lozengiform cross-section. The outline is made up of a series of three curved sections divided by transverse mouldings; one face has no extra decoration, but the other has been filed to produce flat fields to which relief decoration has been added, consisting of radiating grooves on the top and bottom curved sections and grooved lozenges on the transverse mouldings. The central curved section has the rebate into which the tongue was attached. The arms are comparatively slender and are set close together; they are also lozenge-shaped in cross-section. Jew's harps are hard to date as they have changed little since the medieval period. This one is probably 17th or 18th century, as the decoration has a classical flavour.
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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