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Description: | A cast copper alloy object with punched decoration; an iron rod is concealed in one end of the artefact. The object is shaped like a tear-drop, with three circles arranged around the pointed end. Inside the tear-drop, there is an openwork design. There are concentric rings around a circular hole (which does not perforate the circle) in the centre of each circle (on the obverse). On the teardrop there is punched-dot decoration, although corrosion and loss of the surface means that some of this decoration is no longer visible. Below the tear-drop, a strip descends with two knops, projecting out on either side; an opening in the copper alloy reveals the remains of an iron pin, the end of which emerges within the openwork of the teardrop. There is a crescent-shaped terminal at bottom of the strip, which has been broken off; this seems to have originally formed part of a secondary piece of framework or decoration. The iron pin is visible in the curve of the crescent. The breaks are clean and worn. There is also punched-dot decoration. The reverse is undecorated. The artefact is bent in the middle. The surface is dark green; it retains its original smoothness in some places, but in other areas, it is corroded and rough. The artefact has been coated in lacquer. This object is clearly decorative; the iron pin is likely to have been the method of mounting the artefact onto a larger object or structure. This artefact is similar to an openwork plaque from the Somme Bionne cart burial, and is likely to date to the Iron Age but it could also be Roman or Romano-British. | 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: | -700
450 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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