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Description: | A very unusual cast copper-alloy unidentified object, now bent in half, originally straight. It has a flat rectangular shaft, which would have measured about 47mm in length, if straight, it is 7.2mm in width. This shaft tapers towards its terminals. One terminal is complete and has a transverse ridge where it begins, the terminal is split into two slender arms, which each measures about 16.6mm in length and 2mm in width and taper to a point. Their tips are now bent towards each other and touch, however it is unclear if this is how they were originally, perhaps it is more likely that they were straight. The other terminal has two circumferential transverse ridges where it begins and then flares into a flat triangular shaped terminal, which is incomplete due an old break along its tip, it measures 12.3mm in surviving length and 8.8mm in width, at its widest point. No good parallel could be found for this object; it may be an Anglo-Saxon fork, like the fork/spoon implement discovered at Brandon, Suffolk, although the forked end of this had three prongs and the other end was recognisably a spoon bowl (Webster and Backhouse (eds) 1991, no. 66p). Alternatively perhaps this object is some kind of stylus; the flat flaring terminal is similar to stylus terminals found at Brandon, but a parallel for the forked terminal could not be found on a stylus. Another possibility is that the object is a latch-lifter, similar to examples found at Flixborough (Webster and Backhouse (eds) 1991, nos. 69t and 69u). All of these suggested identifications are middle Anglo-Saxon in date, and although no exact parallel could be found it seems likely that this object is of this period.
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