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Description: | A broken cast copper-alloy object of uncertain date and function. The artefact is T-shaped in plan and broken at the end opposite the transverse bar. The longitudinal element curves through ninety degrees from the point at which it emerges from the transverse bar. It has flattened sides and lower surface and a curved upper surface. Set at ninety degrees to it, the centre of the transverse bar has the same cross section. Emerging from the central section is a narrowed arm to each side of circular cross-section. These arms terminate in expanded, flattened ends. On the front of the central element is a slightly off-centre depression which is surrounded by iron corrosion product suggesting a possible, separate iron pin or rivet. The metal has a fairly even mid/dark-green patina with some pitting and patches of off-white corrosion product. The arms are reminiscent of a post-medieval bifurcating thumb rest from a tankard, although such an attribution is not definite.
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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