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Description: | Flat oval disc made from lead. Its upper side is smooth and its edges are lined with a crude deocrative(?) herring-bone pattern. It also separated the surface in two halves. Each has a small indentation. The lower side is still in its rough as-cast state, but the edges have been smoothed down.
Apparently, objects like this have been recovered from sites spanning several centuries and most of them have the two indentations, even if they do not have the herringbone ornament. It is unclear what these objects were for, but its finder, Mr Neil Berry, suggested that they could have been palm guards for leather workers. | 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: | 1000
1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Dot Boughton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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