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Description: | Cast copper alloy furniture fitting, in the form of a ring and rivet, perhaps from a latch or hinge. The ring, which might have been used as a loop or eye, with a latch hook, would have stood proud of the wood that it was driven into with the spiked rivet. The end of the rivet has not corroded to the extent of the rest of the rivet and the ring, suggesting that it has remained in its wooden surround for some time in the ground, until the wood decayed to dust around it.The ring was probably a brass fitting for a small cupboard door for a cabinet, or perhaps a wooden case, like that illustrated in Bosomworth (1991) on page 113, No.6866, which is dated to the Victorian period.
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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