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Description: | A suspension-unit possibly from a censer (or possibly a balance). Comprising a short conical, round-sectioned spike and radiating from below its base three round-sectioned arms with animal-head terminals and transversely pierced lugs on the underside. Most of one arm is missing. Cf. A more commonly found medieval type of suspension-unit for a censer, e.g. the example illustrated in EAA 32, fig.50, no.2. For a very broadly similar example of a balance suspension-unit see Mainman and Rogers (2000), Finds from Anglo-Scandinavian York (2000), 2559-2561, no.10413. However, the example described here lacks a suspension-loop but when hand-held could have been gripped between thumb, index and forefinger. A rather smaller example was found at Whissonsett (HER 31800; Norfolk Archaeol. 44 (2005), 748-9, fig. 10 B). Length of arms (from centre) 38mm. length of spike (from underside) 16.5mm. 10th-11th century.
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