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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy bucket mount or hoop of Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon date. It consists of two joining pieces from a long curved and flat rectangular binding strip/hoop with curved terminal at one end and terminating in old breaks at the other. The front face of the hoop has incised and punched decoration comprising incised transverse grooves creating borders to top and bottom edges of the strip, the borders themselves containing multiple irregularly punched/stamped bow-shaped motifs. In places these stamped elements extend over the incised grooves, and to one side there is a possible second groove that would have enclosed the punched motifs within two parallel lines. The complete terminal end is rounded with a D-shaped aperture. The entire object has an old break at the centre, creating two joining pieces, has a dark green patina and shows signs of corrosion in places. It measures 128.45mm in surviving length (joined), 11.52mm in width, 1.11mm in thickness, and weighs 9.35g.This is probably an incomplete binding strip or hoop from a wooden Anglo-Saxon bucket (J. Hines pers. comm..). Similar examples are published by Cook in her study of these vessels (see for example Cook, 2004: pp. 31-36, nos. 159, 200, 305). These indicate a probable date for the current object in the 6th century, c.500-600 AD (see Cook, 2004: p. 43).
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