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Description: | A piece of metal working waste or slag like material, probably associated with the working of silver. It is sub square in plan and sub rectangular in cross section. This object is suggestive of metal working in the locality but is itself undatable. One face is extremely uneven and pitted. The other face is flat and pitted with a small amount of silver on the surface in one corner. The object has a creamy brown-grey patina which is slightly darker on the latter face.Length: 24.4mm; Width: 22.2mm; Thickness: 9.1mm; Weight: 12gThis object comes from a site where many blobs of melted waste silver have been recovered and where many of the finds are Early Medieval.
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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