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Description: | Sheet copper alloy vessel fragment length 30mm, width 22mm, thickness >1mm. Only a small corner fragment remains and would have formed a cylindrical tube. There are a series of circular punched holes that run along one edge, these would have formed a series of rivet holes that ran down one edge this edge, where the two edge overlapped and would have been riveted together to form the cylinder.
The surface is decorated with a series of linear stamped dot, these dots are very deep circular indentations that do not perforate the surface and would have formed a stamped border with a series of interlocking zigzag lines.
This type of artefact would form the wall of a cylindrical vessel, similar examples which display the exact same decoration have been found in the graves of Early Anglo-Saxon women such as the example found in grave 14 at Lichlade Anglo-Saxon cemetery which was dated to the 6th century (Boyle et al, 1998, 59, 195). This example was described as a needle holder and it was surmised that needles and other sewing trapping would have been stored in such vessels, which would have been suspended from a belt. This artefact is dated to the 6th century to mid 7th 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: | 500
700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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