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Description: | Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It consists of a long rod, 3.5 mm square in cross-section and with the corners bevelled; one end is broken and the other end terminates in an animal's head and a junction with a second missing element. There is a gently curving bend both downwards and sideways before the break, which has apparently caused no stress to the metal; it is hard to see if this is original or not, although the fact that the terminal end is also slightly downcurving might indicate that at least part is original. It is perhaps easiest to describe the decoration from the animal-head terminal backwards. The head is thick, flat and well made with decoration on both sides, although one side has suffered from the loss of the missing element, and many details cannot now be made out. The jaws are open and turned out, and have front teeth which meet, leaving a circular hole in the open mouth behind. There is a dot eye and a row of smaller dots defining the cheek. On top of the head are two upright ears. Behind the cheek and ears, the square-section rod begins with the junction with the other, broken-off element. This has left a fresh scar 5 mm long and 3 mm wide. The square-section rod then runs for 82 mm bent length (the unbent length being in the region of 88 mm) and is decorated only on its upper face (behind the ears) and its bevels. Each of the three faces has a longitudinal row of dots running for about 22 mm before being terminated by a double transverse groove. There is a second double transverse groove, again running across these three faces, about 18 mm from the broken end. The form and decoration are clearly medieval, but the precise date and function are unknown.
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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