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Description: | Copper alloy fragment from a cast partly openwork object. Although now concave in one direction at the back it has clearly been bent and would have originally been flat or nearly so. Two side bars, 5mm wide and D-section, are both broken at one end. The linking part expoands in the centre to encompass an open 4-lobed motif with a shell-shape above; incised lines on the shell shape are now very worn. The side bars end with a broad 2-lobed and facetted terminal; the two sides are slightly asymetric. The most likely function for this object is the outer half of a large trapezoidal buckle, and the inner edge of the openwork motif is flattened to provide a pin rest (no close parallels noted but Egan and Pritchard 1991 no. 470 is of comparable size and shape with simpler decoration.) | 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: | 1066
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jude Plouviez | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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