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Description: | Post-medieval copper-alloy openwork stud or tack with integral shank, incomplete. This stud/tack is sexfoil in shape with six drop-shaped openwork pieces. The drop-shaped pieces are arranged with their points to the centre of the stud/tack and they are in a circular and radiating pattern. There is a small projecting pointed triangular knop at the end of each of the copper-alloy sections separating the openwork drops and there are similar projecting knops at the bottom of each drop; meaning there are 12 separate knops projecting out around the edge of the stud/tack. It is slightly convex is section and has the remains of an integral shank attached to the centre of the back of the object. Sections of the stud/tack are missing around the edges and the break edges are worn. It has an even green patina and measures 38.3mm in diameter, is 2.4mm thick and weighs 9.5g. No direct parallel could be found but there are similar openwork studs/tacks in Read, B. 2001. Metal Artefacts of Antiquity, pages 22, figure 16, ref. 230-1, 238., and on this database, Object ID ESS0F3573. | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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