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Description: | Copper alloy Iron Age fitting. The function of this object is unclear although it appears to be some sort of strap fitting or decorative mount from a curved object - or possibly from the edge of a bucket or vessel. The mount is semi-cylindrical in shape but with an open side. The outside surface is decorated with a single groove at the top and bottom of the cylinder and two curving semi-circular grooves on the front surface. An unusual detail of the piece is that there is a single groove down one side of the open edge of the tube but not at the other - this may be a functional detail.
The object weighs 4.17g and measures 20.36mm in length, 10.76mm in width and 7.88mm in thickness. Another similar example can be seen on the PAS database, No. SWYOR D20FD1 and there is a similar example in the Dragonby report by Jeffrey May, Fig. 11.28, No.113.
A parallel is shown in K. Parfitt. 1995. Iron Age burials from Mill Hill, Deal. London: British Museum Press and is identified as a Shield Clip. However, Jody Joy agrees that these objects could also be mounts from other objects with rounded edges, particularly mirrors or vessels, especially tankards. Adam Gwilt of the National Museum of Wales has commented that they are decorated in the 'Celtic' La Tene style and suggests a date between the 1st century BC to the end of the 1st century AD, probably AD20-80 (ie LIA and Roman Campaigning/Conquest period and soon after). He suggests that they are tankard mount and cites Corcoran, J.X.W.P. (1952) Tankards and Tankard Handles of the British Early Iron Age, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 18, 85-102. | 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: | -100
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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