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Description: | Two rolled sheet copper-alloy rivets of a type in use from c. AD 1400 to c. 1700. The rivet are roughly the shape of a cone with a flat and widened sub-circular 'head', resulting in the object looking like a common nail with a longitudinal seam. The rivets were made from a kite-shaped piece of copper-alloy, the corners being folded and rolled in to give the current shape. The point would be pushed through the items to be riveted and the rivet hammered from both sides until the point had spread out like the 'head'; the complete point suggests this rivet has not been used. Such rivets were also used as pot mends for small holes. The larger of the two rivets measures 37.57mm in length and has a head 12.1mm diameter, while the smaller rivet measures 26.42mm in length and has a head 11mm in diameter. They have a combined weight of 9.4gms.
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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