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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy unidentified object. Roughly rectangular in shape measuring 31mm in length and 13mm in width. All of the edges of this object are incomplete due to old breaks, therefore its original shape and size are not known. The front face of the object is very slightly convex, it appears to have been decorated and the remains of two longditudinal ridges, with transverse ridges inbetween can be seen. The back face is slightly concave and undecorated, there is the remains of a rectangular shaped protrusion near to the centre of the back face, 5mm in length and 3mm in width. Although, due to its condition, it is difficult to be sure what this unidentified object may have been it does seem likely, if is original shape was rectangular as it is now, that it could have been a middle Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch, with a very worn bow, the protrusion on the back face would therefore be the remains of a catchplate. However, this identification is a tentative one at best. | 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: | 720
900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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