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Description: | A cast copper alloy chain swivel loop of Medieval to Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1200 - c. AD 1700). Diameter: 22mm. Weight: 4.54g.The loop is slender at the base and widens towards a circular bezel-like feature. The outer circumferential edge of the loop is knobbly or denticulated. The bezel-like feature has a circular perforation, 5mm in diameter and its upper face has four evenly spaced knobs. This perforation accommodated an elongated loop which would have been attached to a chain (now missing). The swivel could have been part of a lead for a pet (I e: a dog) but they were also used to suspend cooking pots over a fire, on chains. A parallel can be seen in Egan, 1998, 296. Egan suggests a date: 1350-1400. However, see Read 2001, 59. Read dates a similar object: c. 13th - c. 17th century.Compare with other similar objects recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. See finds: BH-8036D2, SUSS-AF2826, SUSS-EFC4A1 and BH-5C6A22. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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