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Description: | Unidentified copper-alloy object, perhaps a box or vessel fitting. At one end is a flattish loop 12.5 mm in diameter with a central perforation 7.5 mm in diameter; the top of this loop appears to be externally worn. An arched bar springs from the base of this loop, hexagonally facetted in cross-section; this flares slightly from 6 mm wide at the top to 8 mm wide at the bottom. The arch bends for a little longer at the bottom than at the top, meaning that the loop cannot have been used to fix the object to a flat surface. The bar then turns a right angle and becomes slightly convex on the reverse; it then ends in a very worn break just as it flares into another component, perhaps a second loop. The object might perhaps have served to hinge or attach a lid to a box, or have acted as a handle escutcheon on a vessel. No parallel has been found.
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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