Rights Holder: Somerset County Council
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Unique ID: SOM-189165
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper alloy egg shaped object of unclear purpose and uncertain date, probably late Medieval or Post Medieval. The item is egg shaped, circular in section with the widest point about one third along its length, from this point it tapers with increasing angle to the rounded ends. The piece appears to be made in two sections, roughly dividing it in half around the circumference, and may originally have been able to be taken apart along the division. There are the stubs of a attachment or suspension loop at the wider end. There is a bare tonsure at the narrow end surrounded by a double incised ring. The rest of the piece is decorated with multiple parallel zigzag lines of pecked dots running from the narrow to the side end. There is one further incised groove around the circumference about a sixth of the way from the narrow to wide end. It is worn at the wide end, obscuring any pattern. It is 31.8mm long, 20.7mm in diameter and 18.28 grams in weight. The weight suggests it is hollow.
It appears to be an item for suspension that could be divided. It may have been a pendant and the division allowed something to be placed inside it. Otherwise it appears similar to items such as light pulls and the division could simply relate to a two part casting to make it hollow.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1950
Quantity: 1
Length: 31.8 mm
Weight: 18.28 g
Diameter: 20.7 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 2nd May 2012
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Other reference: SCC reciept 22008
4 Figure: ST6327
Four figure Latitude: 51.041155
Four figure longitude: -2.529123
1:25K map: ST6327
1:10K map: ST62NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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