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Description: | The item is a wooden terminal with two strips of lead covering it, which are held in place by iron rivets. The wood is sub-oval shape in cross-section, the terminal appears to have been cut, instead of broken or snapped. The cut surface is slightly irregular around the edge and pitted in the centre, possibly due to decay. The other terminal of the wood is slightly tapered in width, but not thickness. A rectangular strip of lead is folded vertically around the tapered terminal, and the ends of the lead are parallel with the cut terminal. This strip of lead is held in place by two ?iron rivets in the corners of one end. Nearer the fold there are five small nearly flat headed iron rivets, forming a 'X' shape, with the central rivet being at the apex of the terminal. A second rectangular lead band is fixed horizontally, so that the upper edge is parallel to the cut edge of the wood. This band is held in place by a rivet in each corner of one end, one at the mid point of the upper edge of the band and one at the lower corner of the opposite edge. In the centre of this lead band there are, evenly spaced, a row of four prominent headed iron rivets, which are decorative as well as functional. These rivet heads are sub-trapezoidal shape in cross-section. The two terminal of the horizontal band do not quite meet, and has a rivet in-between. This maybe due to the wood expanded. The lead has a cream/brown coloured patina. | 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: | 1600
1800 | 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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