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Description: | Bronze bowl with a slightly incomplete base. The bowl has a wide flat base with a central depression, beneath which the external basal disc is attached. The sides of the bowl in profile are hemispherical in shape. On the interior at the centre of the base is an high-relief circular platform. The centre of this platform is a circular mounting point for the exterior basal disc. This mounting point is a brown flaky, slightly shiny material ?iron. The rim is a developed rim shape, however, the rim does not appear to have been pulled inwards and then back on itself as described in Brenan. Instead the profile of the rim is a combination of Brenan?s 1 and 2 on Figure 0.1. The style of the rim profile is similar to that of Roman pottery, with the rim flaring outwards with a curved narrowed neck. A portion of the rim is distorted in shape, and appears to have been squashed, whether this is recent damage or not is uncertain. The exterior surface of the bowl has a tarnished black surface. Some of this black surface has worn away revealing the bronze yellow colour. Smaller areas of the surface are silvered/tinned. The probability was the whole surface was originally silvered, which has now tarnished, forming the black surface. There are outlines of the escutcheon on the exterior of the bowl, however, no escutcheon remains fixed to the exterior. The outlines alternate between a trefoil shape and a sub-circular shape of the hook escutcheon. There are three trefoil shapes and three hook escutcheon shapes all evenly spaced around the bowl. The position of the trefoil outlines are placed on the line of the widest circumference of the bowl, the hook outlines are above this line and towards the rim. Above the trefoil outlines and just below the narrowed neck of the bowl there is a horizontal linear outline, presumably where the decorated scalloped edge fitting was positions. The base of the bowl is incomplete as the bowl has corroded in patches. However, on the portion of the base which forms the foot of the base, there are two small circular rivet holes, which are nearly opposite each other. Also on the edges of the corroded areas there are two other probable incomplete holes. A fifth hole is filled with a copper alloy rivet. The rivet head is on the interior of the bowl and has a flat circular head. The rivet shank is circular in section. The bowl has small active areas of bronze disease. | 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: | 410
1066 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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