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Description: | Unidentified object made from cast copper alloy. Basically rectangular, measuring 33 x 11.5 mm, for most of its length it is D-shaped in cross-section and 8 mm thick. One end has a long bevel which is interrupted halfway down by a transverse ridge which has two broad grooves across it; below this ridge is a circular hole 3 mm in diameter, and then the end is a little irregular, perhaps worn. Above the ridge the bevel is outlined by an off-centre curved groove which encloses four shorter grooves running a little way up from the ridge. The sides of the object are decorated with perhaps four pairs of fine engraved lines which run at the same angle as the bevel and then curve up, originally to run across the top. These are evenly spaced with the first pair right next to the bevel and the last pair (almost completely worn away) right at the other end. The top of the object is flat (worn?) and the grooves here are worn away. At the opposite end to the bevel is an iron rivet. In the centre of the top is a circular depression which (although filled with copper-alloy corrosion and looking very like a rivet hole) is not visible on the reverse. The centre of the reverse is hollowed out although metal is reserved to run around the iron rivet. The function of this object is uncertain, although the rivet holes suggest that it is some sort of mount. It is heavy and chunky, and the decoration of pairs of finely engraved lines suggest an early Anglo-Saxon date. The patina, a matt grey-green with patches of lighter green corrosion beneath, may support this. | 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
720 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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