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Description: | MED Five-pointed lead star-shaped flat-backed object. The point of each triangular-section arm is missing, but arm-length was probably c.27mm (now 23+mm). Maximum thickness, at centre, 7mm. Although there is no central perforation & the arms are straight, this may be a wall or ceiling ornament, & have been set into plaster. Such decorative fittings normally have wavy arms & a perforation. Normally gilded, they are associated with high status buildings (Saunders, P.. ed. Salisbury Mus. Cat. part 3 (2001), nos.190-1, Medieval Household p.62). | 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: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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