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Description: | IA Ae half of 'moustache,' corroded and covered with much iron-staining, it has a hollow-cast, circular-sectioned asymmetrical oval body with elongated pointed terminal, and an open (?broken) mouth at other end (dia.10mm). The body is decorated with closely-spaced longitudinal grooves with a single broad band along the 'base' pierced by a single rivet-hole, there is a further, slightly larger, rivet-hole in the 'top' of the object, both holes are filled with iron-staining and the upper one with an internally projecting fragment of ?wood. The pointed half of the object is plain, max.dia.17mm, length (at least) 51mm, weight 19.86g. Cf. Stead (1998) The Salisbury Hoard, 117. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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