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Description: | Incomplete Late Medieval/ Early Post Medieval copper alloy Jews Harp of ornate trefoil form, missing an arm, half the ornate trefoil end and the iron tongue.The Jews Harp is lozenge-shaped in section, and the surviving arm a little bent at the end. The arm is decorated with two lines of stamped triangles. The one-and-a-half surviving lobes are undecorated but show tooling marks and at the apex of the surviving whole lobe is a round knop. At the broken end of the half lobe the frame is half-thickness, and this is where the iron tongue would have been attached.The decoration suggest this Jews Harp is Late Medieval/ Early Post Medieval in date. It is difficult to date Jews Harps as their forms do not change right up to the 20th century, although they date as early as the Medieval period. Geoff Egan thinks the trefoil examples are earlier.The rounded (in this case trefoil) end would be held in the mouth while the other hand twangs the iron tongue. The cavity of the mouth acts as a resonator.CF. an example from Stowe Nine Churches, Northamptonshire, NARC-AC3AA7.Measures 43.9mm in length and 18mm in width (would have originally been c.37mm wide), and weighs 4.74g.
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