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Description: | Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It is L-shaped, 29 mm long, with one arm measuring 15 mm wide at the corner and tapering to 9 mm wide at the top. This arm is thick and solid, tapering from 5.5 mm thick at the junction with the other arm to 3 mm thick at the narrower end. It is decorated with a double transverse ridge on both faces, and another (now very worn) at the narrow end. Running along the bottom of this part, and extending to form the other arm of the L, are two parallel bars forming a slot. Beyond the end of the solid arm the slot is open at both edges, and one bar is broken before the other (maximum length 36.5 mm). The arm thus formed tapers in width from 7 mm at the corner to 5 mm at the far end. Both faces are decorated with double transverse ridges - one by either end of the solid arm, and a third surviving on the longer half. Between these ridges are faint traces of longitudinal lines of a double-triangle rouletted pattern. The slot is 3 mm wide where it meets the solid arm, but is squeezed much narrower at the open edge. The rouletted decoration means that the object must be medieval, but its function is unknown. | 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 | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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