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Description: | This item 19mm long is shaped in half-round with a flattened back. It is formed of rod 2.3mm broad and 2.5mm thick, which suddenly broadens to 4mm wide and 3mm thick, before tapering to a terminal of 2mm in both dimensions. The overall effect is of a long serpentine head with a tapered snout. This could be broken off some longer object, but the 'neck' end is apparently cut rather than broken, and there is no sign of how this item might have been fixed to another: there are no signs of securing pins on the back. This serpentine head form recurs frequently among middle Saxon items from this field, the date to which this small puzzle object should therefore be assigned. | 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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