Rights Holder: Winchester Museum Service
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Unique ID: HAMP-9A9D22
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
A silver hollow terminal element, made from sheet, with a globular finial at the base. There are three trilobed indentations at the attachment end. Below these is a pair of low ridged bands; there is punched and engraved feather-like decoration below. There is a logitudinal split in the object, more evident at the attachment end, testament to how it was constructed. The object has been squashed around its centre.
Notes:
This artefact has been put through the Treasure process as 2007 T50. Its dating was found to be uncertain. As it cannot be securely dated to pre-1707 it therefore falls outside the provisions of the Treasure Act 1996.
Dora Thornton states: 'The object was submitted as a chape but does not seem to fit the typology for post-medieval chapes submitted through the Treasure Act or in the collections of The British Museum.
Furthermore the decoration does not appear to be particularly 16th or 17th century in style and might suggest that this object is perhaps of a later date, possibly an element from a dress accessory?'
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder after being declared not Treasure
Treasure case tracking number: 2007T50
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1707
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Quantity: 1
Length: 57.5 mm
Width: 10.65 mm
Thickness: 6.35 mm
Weight: 6.1 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st October 2006
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Other reference: 2007 T50
Treasure case number: 2007T50
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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