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Description: | Copper alloy with black paint or oilBead. Cast biconical bead with central aperture of diameter 4.6mm. This may be a paternoster bead, used to mark the decades (groups of ten prayers) of a rosary. The use of paint or oil to treat the surface of copper alloy objects is characteristic of the early post-medieval period, while the Catholic devotion to the rosary was rigorously suppressed after the crushing of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a series of risings opposed to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Suggested date: Early Post-Medieval, 1500-1550.Diameter: 13.5mm, Thickness: 8.3mm, Weight (includes trapped soil): 4.59gms.
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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