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Description: | Found before April 2004, south part of parish
PLAQUE
Small circular copper-alloy disc, 21 mm in diameter and 2 mm thick. The front is heavily gilded and decorated with chip-carved ornament; in the centre is a rounded boss with a groove and then a ridge around it, and then there are three Style I animals filling most of the circle. The animals are all identical, and consist of a leg with an acutely angled ?elbow? and three-toed foot, and a triple-strand body, with a transverse block in front of the body which may be a headframe. In front of each headframe is a triple-strand upward-curving element, which is hard to identify as a body part. The animals are very neatly made. There is a raised border around the edge, with no gilding surviving, decorated with oblique nicks. The reverse is very smooth and flat with no obvious means of attachment and no trace of solder. Although some small parts of the edge are missing, the object is basically complete. The metal is a grey-green colour and the object weighs 2.8g. The Style I ornament dates the object broadly to the 6th century. Although a function cannot be suggested, the object is clearly a very well made piece.
early EARLY MEDIEVAL 500-600 | 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
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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