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Description: | A worn and corroded cast copper-alloy object, seemingly incomplete: possibly a bodkin terminal of post-medieval date. The object is sub-rectangular in plan, elongated. It terminates in a small truncated oval loop, perforated to take a fine thread. It seems likely that the object would have been suspended with this loop uppermost. The loop is truncated by a ridge, square in cross-section, which narrows to a waist below. Below this is a twisted section which tapers over 12.4mm. The rope effect is defined by incisions. Below this is a further element with square cross-section, perforated longitudinally in the plane perpendicular to the suspension loop. This perforation is reminiscent of the eye of a post-medieval bodkin. Towards the end of the perforation (L.: 12.5mm) is a similar perforation in the perpendicular plane (and in the same plane as the suspension loop). This is truncated by an old break giving the terminal of the object four prongs which have abraded to different lengths. If this was part of a bodkin, the purpose of the second perforation is unclear. Further, it would be unusual not to have the eye in the same plane as the suspension loop. This whole lower element is decorated on the unperforated sides with a pair of parallel low ridges as it begins, and a further pair above the second perforation. The appearance of the object and its red-brown metal covered with light green bronze disease would seem consistent with the post-medieval date already suggested.
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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