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Description: | Flat copper-alloy disc, a slightly irregular circle c. 36 mm in diameter and now slightly bent. Holes of varying shapes and sizes have been pushed through the disc from one face to the other - a central small irregularly shaped hole (c. 1 mm across), six similar holes around, ten similar holes in a third ring, then 13 more various holes around the outside. The outer ring contains a neat circular hole of 3 mm diameter and other holes of 2 mm and I mm across. The excess metal on the 'reverse' has been hammered down. The method of construction of the holes is similar to that on medieval strainers and skimmers, and it is possible that some of the larger holes around the edge were used to fix it into a vessel or handle, but its size makes a use like this uncertain. It is just possible that it is a girdle pendant of early Anglo-Saxon date (probably seventh century AD), suspended from the largest hole and with other objects hanging from some of the other holes around the edge, but the construction of the holes would be unusual for this. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 550
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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