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Description: | This is a small fragment from the inscription plate of a fifteenth-century memorial brass with gothic lettering. It has been cut, very deeply and well, on both sides, suggesting that this was a palimpsest, i.e. a brass re-used in the workshop during the middle ages by turning over a discarded or reclaimed sheet of metal which had been used on one side, and making use of the back as a new surface. It is difficult to make much of the letters since they consist entirely of vertical strokes with small angles above, sharply and deeply cut. The letter on one side might be a gothic W, and on the other a d followed by an I or perhaps N, U, or W, with an abbreviation stroke cut over the second letter. There is insufficient to provide more specific information, except to say that there is only one straight edge on the fragment, and that appears to represent the top of the sheet at the time when the inscription including the d was inscribed on it. | 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: | 1400
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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