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Description: | An incomplete post-Medieval cast copper-alloy Jews' harp (c.1500-1800 AD) . In plan, it has D-shaped head and long tapering arms both of which are characteristically lozenge-shaped in cross-section. The head has a length of 24.85mm with 22.3mm width, whilst the arms are 40.4mm in length. One of these arms has been bent so that it now curves outwardly towards the end. In the central area on one side of the circular head would have been a rabbet to hold the tongue; traces of red-brown iron corrosion are visible in this groove and extend just slightly beyond the circumference and must represent this now absent tongue. This object is broadly dark red-brown in colour. This artefact can be paralleled with those shown in Egan (1998: 284-5, fig. 217)
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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