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Description: | Sheet gold disc with double perforation placed slightly off-centre. Five roughly executed concentric grooves surround a central zone containing lightly punched dots which look fairly irregular but for one more regular circle of dots surrounding the perforations. The grooves are perceptible as raised lines on the 'reverse', but the dots are barely discernible although this is the more polished side and the perforations have been made from this face. The piece is somewhat crumpled and crimped at the edges. There is little recent damage apart from a very small tear near the outer edge, and two more (even smaller) close to a crumpled area at one edge. The object belongs to a class of ornament which is among the first metal objects found in the UK and Ireland and may be dated by association with Beaker pottery to circa 2500-2000BC.
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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