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Description: | An Iron Age copper alloy object, Dr JD Hill of the British Museum suggests it may possibly be an unusual early Iron Age toggle but can not suggest a parallel, alternatively it may a Roman dumbell toggle (800 ? 300BC or 1st ? 3rd century AD). The object has been cast to resemble four conjoined spherical beads with flat facets on opposing sides. Each of the ?beads? has a small circular pit located centrally on the flat facets. It is possible the pits are holes that are drilled through but have since filled with erosion or dirt. On one of the ?beads? on one end, a small secondary pit has been partially drilled on the edge of the flattened facet.
Mid-green rough patina with areas of a thick dark green patina. There are no traces of broken edges that indicate whether this is a fragment of a larger object.
Dimensions: length 21.79mm; width 6.30mm; thickness 5.16mm; weight 3.31g | 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
-300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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