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Description: | A copper-alloy unidentified object, 37mm in length and 17mm in width. This object is in the shape of an animals head and snout and is incomplete due to an old break at the neck end. It is rectangular in plan with rounded corners, and almost semi-circular in cross-section, the head slopes upwards from the snout and then back downwards into the neck. The snout terminates in a flat edge and has a circular knop projecting from its centre, it is decorated by seven transverse grooves. Behind these grooves there are two slightly protruding longditudinal oval-shaped eyes, 15mm in length on either side of the head, which have circular indentations in their top half and two longditudinal grooves in their lower half. Inbetween the eyes there are two central longditudinal grooves, perhaps indicating a crest of some kind. Behind the eyes two more longditudinal grooves occur, one either side of the original two, and run down the neck. Behind the eyes on both sides of the head there are six diagonal grooves, sloping upwards. The underside of the object is hollow and 6mm in depth at its widest point. This object is early medieval in style although its function is unclear, photographs have been sent to the British Museum for identification. | 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 | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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