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Description: | Copper alloyPossible Tankard Handle, an interpretation which requires the object to be viewed lengthwise with its concave or inner side concealed. This cast object comprises two ovoid loops meeting at a central group of three circular concave mouldings of diameter 7.4mm, the mouldings being set on either side and on the outer surface. The loops themselves comprise vegetal and possibly zoomorphic motifs. Each loop ends with a bifurcated leaf-shaped expansion curled back to meet the central part. Each leaf has paired fields between a relief border and central rib, filled by three or four irregular rows of small circular punch marks. A narrow stem at the base of each leaf expands from diameter circa 3mm to diameter circa 8mm as it describes an oval loop. On one side, the broadest part of the loop bears a pit of diameter 2mm surrounded by a partial inscribed ring of diameter 9mm, repeated on both its faces. At this point, ferrous corrosion indicates an iron element passing through the thickest part of the loop. The corresponding site on the other loop lacks this adornment, but it is stepped on one side only, and again the site is marked by ferrous corrosion. On both sides these features may indicate attachment with the adjacent flattened parts of both loops flush with the wall of a vessel. Alternatively, there may have been an iron element extending between the loops, and it was perhaps that which was anchored to the putative vessel, leaving rusty traces on both loops. The final and broadest part of both loops bears a further leaf shaped panel on both sides, each with a border and inner panel. A scroll travels from the edge of each panel to the upper or outer surface, and, viewed with the leaf-shaped terminals, these appear as paired eyes above a duck-billed snout. Suggested date: Late Iron Age, 300 BC - AD100.Length: 62.2mm, Width: 27mm, Thickness: 8.7mm, Weight: 24.42gms.
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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