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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy nut crackers dating to the late Post-Medieval to the early Modern period. The object consists of one arm of a nut crackers. The single point hinge survives, the receiving hinge would have been on the missing arm. The arm is circular in section, and then flattens out into a D-shaped section at the hinge end. The interior of the hinge has triangular shaped indentations to grip and break the nut. The arm of the object is decorated with a series of double ridged collars divided by a band of cross-hatching. The arm terminates with a decorative acorn moulding.A complete example which has been recorded on the database is Gilmore, T (2014) WMID-D15D81 A POST MEDIEVAL NUT CRACKERS Webpage available at: http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/596003.
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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