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Description: | Unidentified object made out of copper-alloy sheet. It consists of a rectangular plate, 12 x 21 mm, and a broken projection which extends from the centre of one of the long edges. The plate is undecorated and curved slightly along the long axis. It has two empty rivet holes in the corners of the long edge opposite the projection, and a third rivet hole blocked with iron just by the base of the projection. On the concave face each hole has a surrounding patch of iron corrosion. The projection tapers from 5 mm wide as it emerges from the plate to 4 mm wide at the break. It is bent, although it is hard to tell whether this occurred in antiquity or post-deposition. As it leaves the plate, it bends towards the concave face of the plate, and then reverses to bend forward again; the total length of the projection in its bent condition is 13 mm. The object is corroded, with tiny patches of surviving green surface; the underlying patina is a pale matt green. Date and function unknown. | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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