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Description: | A copper-alloy unidentified object consisting of a solid cylindrical shaft with a tapering square cross-sectioned end and an integral suspension loop with a copper-alloy ring through it at the other end. This object measures 45mm in length and 12mm in width. The shaft is roughly circular in cross-section and decorated with circumferencial mouldings consisting of five flat discs, with small transverse grooves across their edges with three swollen rounded parts in between these. The tapering terminal end has a square cross-section and traces of corroded iron around its tip. A magnet revealed that there is iron within the object. This object was presumably suspended via its loop and the seperate copper-alloy loop thats remains through this indicates that it may well have been suspended from a chain of. It could therefore have functioned as a weight of some sort possibly for a clock. It is perhaps most likely to be medieval or later in date.
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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