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Description: | A small cup-shaped artefact cast from copper alloy. The interior face of the object is smooth; the flat edge around this is stamped with a ring/dot decoration. The convex face of the cup is rougher, with the marks of smoothing from a file or stone. There are no traces of any sort of attachment anywhere on the object, so it cannot have been an item such as a brooch. Approximately half of the rim has been worn or slightly corroded, causing the loss of some of the decoration. The object has a dark green colour, except from the interior is dark greenish-green. This object may have been a toy bowl. Alternatively, it may have been stuck with glue to something else; the different textures suggest that only the concave face was meant to be seen. This object, then, was perhaps set into a hollow, maybe in a larger piece of wood. | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Dom Andrews | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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