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Description: | A cast copper alloy letter, probably from a memorial. A well formed Lombardic capital letter 'R' with serifs, one straight upright leg and a kicked leg that terminates in a hook below the baseline of the letter. The letter is of flat sheet with a polished face and a roughly finished reverse and is 42.5mm high, 34.5mm wide and 3mm thick. The letter has no rivet holes and so it was probably soldered to another sheet of metal or inset into a cell in stonework. Another letter, probably from the same memorial, was found in the same general area of the field that contained this example, by another metal detectorist who mistakenly thought it to be a buckle. This second letter was a Lombardic closed capital 'E' of exactly the same dimensions as this 'R' and for visual reference, very similar indeed to the following examples - NLM-1E79B3 & SF8287. Unfortunately, this find has not been recorded as yet. It is thought that single brass letters such as this example were set into the stone work of memorial monuments, the majority of which were destroyed or damaged during The Dissolution of the Monasteries. There are no existing ecclesiastical establishments close to the findspot so the fact that two letters, possibly from the one monument, should be found together in the same remote place is both a mystery and quite a rare event. | 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: | 1300
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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