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Description: | Incomplete copper-alloy object, just possibly a rectangular drop handle from a box or similar item. The L-shaped, the longer arm is broken part of the way along a panel of twist decoration which is bordered by a double transverse groove. Beyond this is an undecorated panel of rectangular section (5 x 6 mm) with bevelled corners; this is held in the open jaws of a moulded animal head. The head has a pointed nose, and there are broad oblique grooves on the lower jaw and back of the head. These run up to the corner; the shorter arm of the L thickens and is pierced transversely with a circular hole. The hole makes the object look like a drop handle, but the short arm of the L is only 21 mm long and there is only about 6 mm of space between the edge of the hole and the inside of the corner. If the twist-decorated panel is taken as being central to a symmetrical handle, it becomes at least 100 mm long, adding to the strangeness of the dimensions. Could the pierced return have been used for something else? The decoration of the open animal mouth gripping a shaft dates it to the medieval or early post-medieval period. | 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
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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