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Description: | No parallel has come to the recorder's notice of this unusual object. It is openwork and triangular in form, made from three rods of equal length (10mm), circular in cross-section (3mm in diameter), with a small solid ball of 9mm diameter cast onto two of the corners, and a larger solid ball of 12mm diameter cast onto the third. The entire form is a single casting. The surfaces of the balls are pitted by corrosion, and there are patches of verdigris visible, but at the collar or junction of the balls to the rods, and along parts of the rods themselves where the surfaces have been protected, the object appears originally to have had a smooth and perhaps polished finish. The general weight, solidity and evenness of the casting suggests a Late Iron Age date, though the form does not. It may perhaps be a strap-union; a similar object is recorded on the PAS database at LEIC-B57246.
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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