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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy handle from an Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon bucket. One end of the handle with incomplete hooked terminal survives intact, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. The object is rectangular in form, tapering towards the terminal, triangular in section and with punched decoration on the front face. This consists of uneven rows of punched annulets along each side of the handle. The back face is undecorated, but has extensive toolmarks and is slightly unevenly cast. At the terminal end are the remains of an incomplete hook that is rectangular in form, half the width of the handle and curves forwards before terminating in old breaks. The entire object has a mid green patina. It measures 58.05mm in length, 10.30mm in maximum width, 1.64mm in thickness, and weighs 4.19g.The form of this object and the hooked terminal indicate that this object is one end of a handle from a wooden Anglo-Saxon bucket (J. Hines, pers. comm.).The terminal would originally have hooked into a decorative mount on the side of the bucket enabling the handle to hinge/fold. Similar examples are noted in Cook's study of Anglo-Saxon buckets (Cook, 2004: pp. 33-34, 39-40, no. 278) and suggest a date n the 6th century, c500-600 AD, for the current example.
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