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Description: | Fragment of a cast copper alloy object. The piece has a straight, flat bar at the base which steps in in width just before ending in a worn break. The bar is 7.0mm wide by 2.3mm thick at the wider section. At the other end of the bar it widens into a curved, flat side projecting up at 90 degrees to the bar in the same plane, c.1.2mm thick. The outer and inner edges of the curved section appear original but the top ends in a very worn break. At the corner between the curved side and the bar is a projecting lobe on the front which is a quarter of a sphere in shape with the angled flat side towards the bar and the convex curved back towards the curved section. The lobe is concave on the back but the rest of the piece is flat. It is 24.0mm long, 18.1mm wide and 6.3mm thick; it weighs 3.11 grams.Although the bar at the base may suggest a buckle the wideness of the bar and the thickened lobe at the end would be very unusual. It appears most similar to flat ring terrets of 50 BC - AD 100 date such as NMS-2F9D57, NMS-6599B4, PAS-84FAE6, and NMGW-41F3E4. Such an interpretation would also fit with the quarter spherical lobe which is a common feature in Iron Age ornament. However it is much thinner and lighter than most examples and the stops on flat ring terrets are usually either flat (as with ESS-DD1FC5) or project on both faces (as with LIN-670AF0) creating a full collar suggesting if this interpretation is correct this piece is mis-cast.
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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