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Description: | A copper-alloy unidentified object which is most likely to be Iron Age in date. This object is cylindrical in shape measuring 13mm in height and 13mm in width it is 10mm in thicknes. One end has a central circular boss protruding from it, measuring 5mm in diameter and the other end has a circular indentation also 5mm in diameter and 5.5mm in depth, with a yellowish powdery deposit within it, this indentation presumably originally held enamel, possibly yellow in colour.
One side of the object has a square protrusion, 5mm by 5mm in size and 1mm in thickness. There are two longitudinal grooves running from one edge of this almost meeting in the middle of the object and flaring apart again to end at the other edge of the square protrusion. Either side of these grooves is a finer longitudinal groove with diagonal grooves pointing downwards on either side of one line and diagonal grooves pointed upwards on either side of the other.
No parallel could be found for this object but its decorative style is very reminescent of the Iron Age, which is its most likely date. | 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: | -800
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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