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Description: | A lead alloy unidentified object of possible Post Medieval date. It is cast and is sub-rectangular One end is wide and has rounded corners. In the centre, the sides slope inwards and the object reduces in width from 16.4mm to 11.6mm. The narrower end terminates in a triangular point. There is a possible untrimmed casting seam round the edge of the object. The artefact is 5.5mm thick. The front face is decorated with a moulded border round the narrower end. It is raised and is 3mm wide and is further decorated with recessed circles. The wider end has a similar border, but decorated with raised circles. The widest part of the object has a double row of this border. The inner border extends into a pointed arch across the start of the narrower projection. The spec between the inner rows of the border at the wide end is filled with two additional bands of similar decoration. These are only at the wide end and are just 8mm long. At their end is a transverse moulded line, and above that, still withing the border decoration, is a single width strip of similar decoration, 5.4mm long. The remining space in the centre of the object is an empty hollow. When viewed with the wide end of the object at the bottom, this decoratin gives the appearence of a church or other aisled building.The object has smooth, slightly rounded corners, and a partially covering cream patina. It appears to be complete and has no obvious function. It is perhaps part of a toy. Overall, it is 39.3mm long, 17.1mm wide and 5.5mm thick. 21.39g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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