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Description: | A cast copper alloy possible flail head dating from the Medieval period. The object consists of a copper alloy case or shell with an integral suspension loop and a lead alloy core. The object is pear-shaped with a rounded cross-section. A casting seam is visible running from the base of the loop down each edge of the object. At the base of the object is a small perforation with an internal diameter of 3.67mm. Within the perforation the lead alloy core can be seen, which is light white in colour. The perforation is surrounded by a double circumferential collar at the base of the object.The integral suspension loop is circular with an internal diameter of 9.83mm. The loop is oval in cross-section and widens towards the base where it measures 6.75mm in width and 6.10mm in thickness. At the top of the loop narrows to 4.56mm in width due to wear. At the base of the loop is a circular collar.Each face of the object is decorated with an X formed of two arms of eight pellets. The pellets are raised and circular with an average diameter of 5.19mm. With each angle of the X are rows of smaller pellets measuring c. 1.64mm in diameter.The object has a light green patina which is pitted in places. It weighs 221.8g.Similar sized and decorated examples come from the Baltic and Denmark and it is likely that this example is from the continent, A.N. Kirpichnikov (1966) Archaeology of U.S.S.R: collection of Archaeological sources: Old Russian Arms, Vol. 1 (in Russian).A similar example can be found in the catalogue of the collections of the National Museum of Denmark, (unpublished).
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