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Description: | A copper-alloy escutcheon plate, probably for joining a handle to a bucket or other sheet metal vessel. No parallel could be found for this piece, but the style of the attachment can be paralleled with the handle attachment on an early 1st century AD bronze mirror found at Old Warden in Bedfordshire (M. Spratling; 1970), and in general, with the designs on the La Tène style British mirror series of the late Iron Age to early Roman period.The attachment section consists of two sub-elliptical portions which come together at the top and have short upturned protrusions at the bottom. From the centre of each half of the attachment protrudes a domed circular rivet head, the one on the left hand side also having a washer. Extending upwards from the slightly lower attachment plate is a rounded loop with an oval aperture. On the reverse of the attachment plate, remnants of a thin sheet metal vessel are held in place by the large flattened rear heads of the rivets. The object measures 42.7mm wide, 58.2mm high and 6mm thick. The weight is 37.85g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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