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Description: | Unidentified cast copper alloy object. The object is very three-dimensional. It consists of a ring 8mm internal diameter and 17mm external diameter, with three evenly spaced lugs around its circumference and a D-shaped arch running from one of the lugs back to the ring. The ring is 5mm thick and roughly a quarter-circle in cross-section, with the reverse slightly hollowed. Each of the lugs is D-shaped and lies against the curved outer edge of the circle. Each lug has a circular hole running parallel to the circumference of the circle. The arch is sub-triangular or semi-circular in cross-section, and rises from the top of one of the lugs and rejoins the circle between the other two lugs. It has traces of very worn chevron decoration, perhaps originally engraved, along the whole of its length; there seems to have been a lozenge in the centre dividing two groups of chevrons, each group pointing away from each other. The rest of the object does not appear to be decorated. The whole object is corroded to a matt brownish colour with patches of green. Although no parallel has been found, the chunky feel of the object, its condition and decoration suggest a possible late Anglo-Saxon date. The object may have been a suspension device, with chains fixed to the lugs and the arch allowing it to be hung from a hook; the chains may have attached it to a lamp or censer, etc. | 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: | 901
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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