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Description: | An unidentified incomplete copper-alloy object. This item has an extremely clean surface. About 96mm long (but slightly curved in this dimension, and therefore longer if flattened), It takes the form of a strip which is 9mm wide at one end (where broken off) and only 0.5mm thick. Over a length of 65mm the strip gradually tapers to a rod of 2.5mm gauge, and then retains this form to the other end, also broken off.
The flattened surface, presumably formed by hammering a rod, is decorated by two longitudinal rows of small but neatly-formed ring and dot motifs, each of diameter slightly less than 2.0mm. As the tapered strip becomes very narrow, the last four rings-and-dots appear in one row only, but there are fourteen motifs in each of the double rows. The whole flattened surface is outlined by a marginal engraved line at either edge. One of the ring-and-dot motifs near the wider broken end has been obliterated by having a small hole drilled clean through the metal, possibly suggesting a repair in antiquity.
No parallel could be found for this unusual object, however, it is perhaps most likely to be Anglo-Saxon in date. It could possibly be a bracelet fragment but if so it is a very unusual example. | 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: | 500
750 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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