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Description: | A cast copper alloy miniature wheel. The wheel has a circular frame, which is sub-oval in section the apex of the outer edge is decorated with two horizontal grooves with fine, narrow oblique ribbing either side of the groove. The interior of this frame has a triangular frame with slightly concave sides and a large integral pellet within. The triangular frame is semi-circular in section. Where the triangular frame meets the outer frame there are cracks in the frame as the triangular frame has been damaged. This damage is recent as fresh metal is revealed. The surface of the wheel is slightly pitted with an incomplete mid green patina. The wheel measures 43.8mm diameter and is 7.08mm thick at the outer edge. It weighs 3.93g.
Jope (Jope, E.M. 2000 Early Celtic Art in the British Isles Clarendon Press Oxford) illustrates a miniature wheel from Hounslow, Figure 161: O, and dates this to the Iron Age. The Hounslow example has a ?+? internal frame, as does the only other miniature wheel recorded on the PAS Database (DENO-0BBA52) from Thimbleby, Lincolnshire. The wheel dates to the Iron Age and may have been used as a strap divider, however there are no signs of wear on this example. | 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
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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