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Description: | Large triangular 'spangle' made from greyish copper-alloy sheet. The shape is a low triangle with a rounded top and shallowly sloping sides which turn a slight angle close to the base to slope more steeply. One lower corner is damaged; the surviving width is 34 mm but originally it might have been a millimetre or two wider. The length is 22 mm. The spangle is decorated with a border of double-crescent punchmarks, which are applied a little unevenly, being double-stamped in one area. They may be made up of single crescent punches applied in two rows. There is a circular perforation 3 mm in diameter in each corner. At the top there is some discolouration around the hole, perhaps from iron corrosion. One of the other corners is torn through. Spangles had a variety of uses; they were worn at the top of pins, or on buckets, or on the ends of necklaces. They are early Anglo-Saxon and date to the fifth or sixth centuries AD. | 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
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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