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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy unidentified object which could be Roman to medieval in date and for which not published parallel could be found. The object has a central trapezoidal hollow shaft which has an incomplete iron bar ruuning through it and projecting from either end. Two opposing faces of the shaft are decorated with vertical grooves and the other two faces with horizontal grooves. Projecting from one side of the narrower end of the central shaft there is an integral projection consisting of a rectangular neck curving upwards and then back down, forming an n-shape, and terminating in a horizontal bar decorated with transverse grooves. There is the fragmentary remains of another, persumably very similar projection, projecting from the opposite side of the central shaft. This object measures 19.98mm in width and 12.37mm in height.
A similar more complete object with two arms and a central shaft with a hole containing iron has been found in Hadleigh, Suffolk, see SF9616. | 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: | 43
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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