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Description: | Late medieval copper alloy reading glass, circular frame (diameter 55mm) with integral tapering handle with double-notched end (length of object 105mm), formed from two cut-out sheets joined by three copper alloy rivets around frame and two more at both springing of neck and terminal of handle. Sides of frame angled with internal gap to hold glass, small decayed whitish fragments of which survive. Decorated with deeply punched dots on one face of frame and compass-drawn engraved lines on both faces of frame, handle has borders and curvilinear lines of addorsed punched triangles. The form of this artefact is similar to (although larger than) a half part of a number of pairs of riveted spectacle frames of bone discussed recently by Stevenson (London Archaeologist 1995, 7.12, 321-7), although I have failed as yet to find anything to parallel this most unusual find. Possibly 15th century. | 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
1499 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Erica Darch | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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