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Description: | A damaged and incomplete pair of post-medieval cast copper-alloy mathematical or surveyor's dividers dividers with a globular knopped handle at the hinge. The knop is faceted and broadly octagonal in cross section. There is a thin collar at its base. Within a slot are the broken remnants of the thinner arm. The main arm continues with an octagonal cross-section before narrowing to accommodate the (now missing) arm. At this point is acquires a trapezoidal cross-section. Central to the arm it becomes convex, narrowing slightly and taking on a triangular cross-section. This 'hump' terminates in a transverse ridge on the external surface. Below the arm continues with the same cross-section; it has been bent round to one side as a result of old damage. It is truncated at its tip probably to accommodate a fine iron nib; this no longer survives but traces of orange corrosion product testify to it. Overall the artefact has a mid/dark-green patina over a red-brown metal with areas of off-white corrosion product in places. Similar dividers are illustrated in Bailey (1995, 69; e.g. ref. 12).
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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