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Description: | Medieval copper alloy oval frame with composite rigid plates (and missing its composite rigid plates). Part of the wire pin is still in situ .
The frame has a very pointed lip, which has a tiny notch for the pin. The frame itself measures 24mm high (internal 18mm). It has a constriction for the pin on the opposite edge only - that extending into the arms. The constrictiona rea i 2.8mm thick. The arms are thinned on both sides and are 2mm thick. Both arms are incomplete and only survive to a length of 24mm.
The arms are similar to Egan 1991 no.326.
Incomplete length 45.4mm. Weighs 5.90g.
Similar example from London (Egan, 1991) date to the second half of the fourteenth century. | 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: | 1350
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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