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Description: | A complete copper-alloy object. This object consists of a rectangular shaped shaft with one end tapering towards its terminal and the other ending in an open loop at right angles to the plane of the shaft. The shaft is bent in half and it is not clear if the object would have originally have been bent in this way or if this is due to later damage. The bend is very even and divides the wider decorated half of the shaft with the loop terminal from the narrower undecorated half of the shaft. The wider end of the shaft has small diagonal V-shaped notches cut onto its sides. Within this boarder of notches and a boarder groove the front face is decorated with three parallel pairs of rectangular indentations with two parallel circular indentations inbetween two of the rectangular pairs and three circular indentations beneath the last pair. The shaft narrows and has a projecting transverse part beneath the loop, c7mm in diameter. The loop also has notches cut into its sides and a central longitudinal groove running along its outer face. This object measures 72mm in length (in its current bent state), the wider half of the shaft is 11.7mm in width and narrower half tapers to 5mm in width at its tip.
No parallel could be found for this object, its function is therefore unknown, although presumably the loop would have acted as a suspension loop of some kind. It is possible this object could perhaps have been used as a page marker in a book or be some other kind of book fitting but this suggestion is tentative at best. It is most likely to be medieval or post-medieval in date. | 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: | 1300
1650 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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