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Unique ID: SF5225
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper-alloy upholstery tack with hollow-domed pointed-oval head and remains of square-section spike. The head is carefully made with the convex surface made up of lots of longitudinal facets with some oblique filemarks. It may once have been neatly symmetrical, but now a bit of one edge has been cut away. The patina is a dark greyish black, but there is green below where the patina has rubbed off. The dating of this object is difficult - pointed-oval tacks are known from the Roman period but are also used today. The careful manufacture of this one might indicate a relatively early date.
Class: upholstery tack
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Quantity: 1
Length: 20 mm
Width: 11 mm
Weight: 1.94 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st September 2000
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Recorded by: Dr Helen Geake
Identified by: Dr Helen Geake
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
No references cited so far.
Find number: SF5226
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broadperiod: UNKNOWN
Copper-alloy upholstery tack with hollow-domed pointed-oval head and remains of square-section spike. The dating of this object is difficult …
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Find number: SF5227
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broadperiod: UNKNOWN
Copper-alloy upholstery tack with hollow-domed circular head and complete bent square-section spike. The dating of this object is difficult -…
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Find number: SF4413
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broadperiod: ROMAN
Upholstery tack with a tapering square-section shaft, now broken off short, and a hollow-domed head of pointed-oval shape. Length from top of…
Workflow: Published