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Description: | A cast copper-alloy object, possibly a mount, of probable Iron Age date. It has a dome-shaped head with a central circular recessed field at the top and four evenly spaced sub-triangular recesses around the sides that produce a curvilinear cross-shaped motif with central circle when viewed from above. There are no traces of other decorative elements, such as enamel, that may once have existed in the recessed fields. On the back face of the head is a large integrally cast shaft that is oval shaped in section and has an oval shaped aperture at the centre of the underside. The entire object measures 16.76mm in length, 16.70mm in diameter at head, 13.02mm in length and 11.65mm in width at shaft, and weighs 8.12g.The precise function of this object remains uncertain and no close parallel has as yet been identified. It is probably a mount of some kind, perhaps relating to harness fittings or the like, and its form and decoration suggest a possible later Iron Age date, perhaps in the 1st century BC/AD.
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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