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Description: | Fragment of an Early Medieval, Anglo-Saxon, iron shield boss. Low, conical body, straight sided and surmounted by an apex button set on a short rod. The absence of the flange makes classification difficult but the side wall had an over-hanging carination. In Bayliss and Hines classification (2013, 148-62) this boss can be placed in SB1a and was seen to date to before AD 565. In Dickinson and Härke's earlier classification of shield bosses (1992, 11) this find can be fitted into Group 1.1 for which a late fifth-mid-sixth century date was suggested.Diameter 130.0mm, Surviving Height 63.0mm, Mass 171.21g
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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