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Description: | A copper-alloy unidentified object rectangular in shape, 65.5mm in length and 12.6mm in width. Consisting of two identical halves with sides, they are soldered together along the longitudinal edges of their sides. This object is therefore hollow inside. One terminal tapers and is distorted slightly, due to damage, the two halves have come apart in this area. At the other end the two halves are still together and the terminal is shaped to represent what may be a side profile of an animal, with a neck, rounded snout and projecting flaring ears. Below the snout there are what appear to be small front limbs, they have a hole through their terminal and beneath them, it is difficult to know if this is due to wear or an original feature of this object. On both faces of this object there are traces of incised decoration, the original form of which is no longer clear. This object is most likely to be medieval in date but its function is unknown. | 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: | 1100
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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