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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy nut crackers dating to the late Post-Medieval to the early Modern period. The object consists of one arm of a nut crackers. The single point hinge survives, the receiving hinge would have been on the missing arm. The arm is circular in section, and then flattens out into a D-shaped section. The arm terminates in a break and would have curved outwards to meet the opposite arm. The rectangular part of the arm is decorated with three ring-and-dot decorations on the top and either side. The interior of the hinge has triangular shaped indentations to grip and break the nut.Similar examples which can be found on the database are WAW-24E2E0 and SWYOR-EE9E14.
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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