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Description: | Iron Age copper alloy and enamel object, 29mm long, 28mm wide and 12mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 9.27 grams. The object is T shaped and consists of a rectangular sectioned bar with two ovoid protrusions on its outer side and two circular terminals at each end. These are all decorated with a single circular dot of enamel or glass? infill in their centres. The bar is attached to a circular sectioned 'handle' which splits into two sections, each one joining the object under the inside of the circular terminals, forming a V shaped void.The object is probably a handle for a vessel or, given the rectangular void, perhaps some sort of harness strap fitting? Jody Joy, Curator of Iron age at the British Museum, has dated the object to the 1st centuries BC/AD in the absence of any parallels.
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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