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Description: | A fragment of a copper-alloy unidentified object which could possibly be late early-medieval in date and Viking in style. The fragment is roughly rectangular in shape measuring 43mm in length and 16mm in width, it is 2.5mm in thicknes. Apart from one curving rounded terminal the rest of the edges of this fragment are incomplete, due to old breaks, some breaks have more wear on them than others implying that this object has been broken more than once at different times. The front face of the fragment is decorated but what is being depicted, if anything, is not clear as not enough of the design now survives. The design remaining has five central straight parallel grooves with a curvilinear raised band to either side of these. Only one of these curvilinear bands survives in its entirely and it has a row of circular indentations along its length. Beneath the curvlinear line there is an oval groove and the oval it delimits is again decorated with two parallel rows of small circular indentations. The back face is undecorated. Unfortuenately no parallel could be found for this fragment.
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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