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Title: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT [Go to resource]
Description: Lead disc, an irregular circle 50-60 mm across and on average about 5 mm thick, found folded in half and now unfolded to reveal decoration on the inner face. The decoration is in low relief and, although hard to read, appears to consist of the royal arms (pre-1603) on a shield with a flat top. Around the edge is a border of rosettes and stars and perhaps saltires, contained within two wire lines. To the top and sides of the shield are single saltires which join the shield to the inner wire line. This design does not appear to be copied from any coin. At the bottom is a possible projecting tab, but there are no other fixing devices to allow the object to be mounted. Its function is unknown, but its date is probably 16th century. 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: 1500 1603 Source: Portable Antiquities Identifier: http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... Language: en-GB Format: text/html Go to resource More Like this...
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