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Description: | Unidentified object or fragment of object, made of two sheets of gilded copper-alloy held together by a single copper-alloy rivet. Both sheets are nearly rectangular, 20 mm wide by 21-24 mm long. The lower sheet is undecorated and has two adjacent edges (20 and 21 mm long) turned up at nearly 90 degrees to form a flange. Into this flange is set the upper sheet, which is decorated with neatly made ?floral ornament made up of fine dots. The 24 mm long edge of this sheet is slightly turned up and is then broken. The rivet has a thick but neat head and is set close to the 24 mm long edge. The total maximum thickness is 3.5 mm; the gap between the sheets flares to 1 mm at the 24 mm long edge, and there is some black ?leather surviving in between the two sheets. The pattern of gilding helps to reconstruct the original shape of the object. On the lower sheet, there are traces of gilding on the reverse around the rivet, both flanged edges also have gilding, and there is surviving gilding on the other long edge showing that it must be original. The upper sheet has lots of gilding on its decorated face and on the underside of the slightly turned-up edge. The oblique short edge is the only one with no gilding and seems certainly broken. This must have been part of a complex object, but quite what it was is uncertain. The quality of the workmanship and the thinness of the ?leather between the copper-alloy sheets may suggest something to do with the cover of a book. | 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: | 1066
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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