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Description: | A group of four cast, lead alloy artefacts, purpose presently unknown, possibly medieval in date. Each item is in the form of a hollow quarter hemisphere evidently cut from larger hemispherical objects. All four items are damaged but appear to carry traces of a wreath design incorporating laurel branches. This is separated from a thick rim by a raised line running around the curve of the objects. Within the border created by this line is a legend with letters in medieval style, the As being unbarred and with a top crossbar. The bases of the letters point inwards. The legible parts of the legend are: DON[-]ED, SB[-]OI, WARANG, and the last piece is illegible. All four objects have been crudely pierced in the centre and threaded on to a ferrous rivet, the head of which remains in place on the underside of one object. The finder reports that when found, the pieces were stacked up on top of each other, perhaps held together by the iron element. The identification of these objects are not certain. They seem to be re-used at a later date for a different purpose. They are perhaps sections cut from a lead alloy water trough for caged birds - see Egan, Material Culture in London in an Age of Transistion, page 129, number 617, or parts of large pewter spehical bells. Their re-use could have been as a bird scarer or rattle, or just as a lead weight, perhaps for a line or net.The dimensions of the four objects are as follows:1: 34.9mm long, 28mm wide and 15.6mm thick, weight 17.6gm.2: 32.9mm long, 26.5mm wide and 14.6mm thick, weight16.22gm.3: 30.6mm long, 26.6mm wide and 11.2mm thick, weight 13.71gm.4: 33.4mm long, 26.8mm wide and 10.2mm thick, weight 17.44gm.
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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