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Description: | An incomplete cast lead object, possibly a fragment from a vessel or similar item of uncertain date. A tapering, rectangular fragment including part of the rim is preserved, but has clearly been deliberately cut down both sides and at the base when the vessel was broken up in antiquity. The rim is rectangular in form and section with slightly concave front face and flat back face. Not enough of the rim survives to be certain of its original form. The wall of the vessel below is flat, rectangular in form and with moulded decoration on the front face. This comprises a diagonal band of double stranded interlace within a rectangular border that runs from the base of the rim the length of the surviving fragment. The back face is flat and undecorated, although has a series of parallel vertical lines or grooves that may be the result of use or damage rather than being specifically decorative in nature. The entire object measures 88.85mm in length, 38.21mm in width, 8.88mm in thickness (at rim, 4.63mm at body/wall), and 135.99g in weight.The precise function of this object remains uncertain. It is clearly from the rim of a larger vessel or similar item, but the small surviving fragment makes close identification of form impossible. A similar object was recorded through the PAS from Cambridgeshire (SF-15CBF5) although again a close parallel was not identified. The decorative elements might indicate a comparatively early date for the object, potentially into the later Anglo-Saxon period, but it may equally belong to a point later in the Medieval period. Until such time as a close parallel is identified the dating of the object remains uncertain.
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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