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Description: | Copper alloy jews (or jaws) harp. Although the iron spring strip is missing, there is a depression visible on the rounded bow where it was once attached. The object is otherwise complete and in a good state of preservation.The jews harp is banjo-shaped in plan and the trapezoidal-sectioned arms taper towards the end. The item resembles nos. 4 and 5 of Bailey's Jaws Harps chapter of Detector Finds 2. This identifies it as an 18th-century object (the arms are much longer than those of medieval jews harps)
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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