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Description: | Cast lead cross, cross-shaped in plan, with one bent arm, and triangulat in profile and section. There are raised ridges on the upper face of the cross, running the length of the arms which taper to points. There is a broken suspension loop on the end of one arm, so perhaps the cross was used as a pendant or badge. Its size and weight suggests that it might have been used as an ingot instead.Griffiths, Philpott and Egan (2007) illustrate a similar example from Meols on page 152, Plate 28, No.1884, which is dated to the Medieval period. Other examples are referred to on page 158 that are more reliably datable to the late Medieval period, from a similar fishing village, Walraversijde, near Ostende in Belgium.
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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