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Description: | Suspension unit for ?censer (or ?balance) comprising a short conical, round-sectioned spike, most of which is missing, and radiating from below its base three D-sectioned arms decorated with moulded transverse grooves and each terminating with a lug on the flat underside. The object is in rather abraded condition, and it is uncertain whether the lugs are complete and unpierced or whether transverse perforations have been lost.There is some broad similarity to a more commonly found medieval type of suspension-unit for a lamp or censer (e.g. the example illustrated in EAA 32, fig.50, no.2), and a pre-Conquest balance suspension-unit from York, see Mainman and Rogers (2000), Finds from Anglo-Scandinavian York (2000), 2559-2561, no.10413. However, the piece described here lacks a suspension-loop but when hand-held could have been gripped between thumb, index and forefinger. Broadly similar types have been found at Congham (HER 25765), Great Cressingham (HER 53809) and Whissonsett (HER 31800; Norfolk Archaeol. 44 (2005), 748-9, fig. 10 B). Others have been recorded in Old Hunstanton (HER 1270), Sandringham (HER 3257) and Shipdham (HER 50251). Lengths of arms (from centre) 17mm (two examples) and 21mm (the other). Dates to the 10th-11th century.
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