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Description: | A lead-alloy disc, decorated on both sides, complete except for a very small piece from the rim. One side of the disc is decorated with a central raised boss surrounded by four concentric rings of decoration, each bordered by raised lines. The innermost one is filled with radial lines, the next contains raised pellets, the next contains pellets each surrounded by a ring, and the outmost one is radial lines again. The other face has a raised central boss in the centre of a lozenge shape of raised lines. This has extended points that reach to the edge of the disc, and concave sides. There is a border of radial lines and a pellet in a ring in each angle. The disc is cracked and fragile. It has a grey patina with areas of white.The style of decoration is similar to early medieval disc brooches such as HESH-3AC4C6 and CAM-8B2B06, but the object cannot have been a brooch as it has decoration on both faces and no evidence of attachment. LVPL-AD5515 is a double-sided lead-alloy disc with a suspension loop in fairly similar style, and seems to be the best parallel for this object; a suspension loop could have been attached at this damaged area.It is also possible that it is a 12th- century pin head similar to SWYOR-F65465 and NMS-FA75A2 (currently listed as a post-medieval unidentified object); this has been suggested following the example from a 12th-century context in London, although that is only 12mm wide (Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1470). If it is a pin, then the tubular socket for the copper alloy shaft is missing at the damaged part of the rim.
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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