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Description: | Ferrule of conical form, with a ball finial waisted at the junction with the ferrule casing. The ball is of 5mm diameter: the ferrule case is of thin metal, c.0.5mm thickness, which is holed near the upper edge or mouth of the case for the passage of a pin or rivet to fasten the ferrule to its matrix. The length including the ball finial is 20mm and the taper of the case is from 7mm at the mouth to 4mm above the ball. The rivet hole makes it unlikely that this was a lace-end, which it somewhat resembles. This was made to protect the tip of a very slender wooden rod of some kind: it may have served as a finial pointing up, for ornamental purposes, as much as a ferrule on the ground or base of the rod to which it was attached.
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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