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Description: | Unidentified object made from copper alloy, consisting of a solid globular end and a perforated lug. The solid end is flattened slightly on both sides, so that it is 12 mm wide and 14 mm thick; the top is cut off to make a rectangular platform making the length 13 mm. The rectangular-section lug emerges from one end of the platform, flaring from 4.5 mm wide at this end to 7 mm wide at the far end and also flattening slightly. It has a faint grooved border on at least one face, and at the wider end is a circular perforation 2.5 mm in diameter. The addition of the lug brings the length up to 27 mm. Although the shape is superficially like a globular button, it is clear that the object could not have functioned as such, and its date and function remain unknown.
Similar objects, but with two lugs, are recorded on the PAS database at LIN-3606A4, LIN-CD28E6 and SWYOR-1D5F98. Another, perhaps similar, item decorated with a Romanesque-style animal head in place of the globular ball can be found on the PAS database at WILT-8F33A4. A further example, but with a hollow globular head, comes from Thetford (Rogerson and Dallas 1984, fig. 112, no. 52); this was a surface find and so not from a stratified context, but also had a grooved border to the lugs. | 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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