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Description: | An incomplete possibly Roman copper alloy unidentified socketed object, missing part of the wall of the socket. It measures 53.10x38.71x10.56mm and weighs 49.13g.The object consists of a neck extending from a rounded bottom half, with a moulded curving projection to each side at the mid-point. From the base of the rounded bottom half extends a loop, turned through 90 degrees. The rectangular-sectioned open end measures 13.71x9.56mm (internal 9.64x7.21mm) and is 10.13mm deep. One face and one corner of the socket is missing. Below the socket the rest of the neck is solid, and the entire neck is c.24mm in length. The neck narrows from the open end to 12.84mm and the corners are flattened to give a faceted appearance to each face. The surviving face of the socket is quite thin (0.88mm at the end) and dented in appearance, possibly the result of a hammer blow. The point just below the missing face also looks slightly dented as though from a hammer blow.The maximum width of the object is across the two curving projections. These extend from moulded ovoids which extend backwards in the two faces of the object in a narrowing, triangular shape. To the sides of the object, the ovoids have prominent lips at top and bottom. The curving projections are max.8.5mm wide, narrowing to c.6mm wide at the end.The rounded part of the object is max.18.75mm wide and max.8.17mm thick. The loop is 5.17mm wide with an internal diameter of 3.03mm. The object is thickest just below the open end of the socket, and narrows to 6.29mm at the oppoiste end, just behind the projecting loop.The object has not been recognised as Early-Medieval (Helen Geake pers.comm. 2012) or Iron Age (Adam Gwilt pers. comm. 2012).
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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