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Description: | This copper-alloy object is spherical and measures 14mm in diameter. Its decoration is Iron Age in style, incorporating two faceted lip-shaped protrusions, one with rows of circular indentations down its centre and the other 'shaded' with tiny circular indentations. These two largest lip-shapes project from either side, and have a smaller similar protrusion in between them. Above these and to one side there is a protruding circular part which is decorated with incised swirls, one of which is 'shaded' with tiny circular indentations, and an incised spiral with circular indentations along the incision. Incised swirling lines form borders to all of the decorative elements of this object. On what appears to be the underside of the object there is the remains of a cylindrical protrusion, which may have been a shaft. Indeed, it seems most likely that this object is perhaps an Iron Age pin head, with most of the shaft now missing. However, no parallel could be 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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