2024-03-29T02:12:58+00:00https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/jsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/xmlhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/rsshttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/atomhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/kmlhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/geojsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/qrcodehttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results1120Dorset100CountyMODERN1Metal detectorDEV9C7B05.JPG143622017Centred on field1144191UN4DistrictCertain2DEV144511900Tarrant Crawford68.18North Dorset110952017-08-26T12:02:45ZReturned to finderSouth WestCirca
An unidentified Lead alloy object, probably of fairly recent date, but potentially older, c. AD 1400-1900. The object is incomplete, comprising of a lead alloy disc with a single surviving attachment loop. The disc is decorated, all deeply incised, with a robed figure on horseback within a circular border. The border appears to have been used as a guide to cut away much of the original circumference, with, by the orientation of the decoration, between 2 and 9 o'clock missing. The weight of the object in combination with the positioning of the loop (which is not alligned with the decoration) would suggest both that the object did not hang as a pendant and that there were originally further attachement loops around its circumference. The reverse of the disc features two unclear, but probably deliberate, stamped and incised marks.The lower mark is squat, and comprises of a stamped sub-rectangle surmounting a rounded sub-triangle, the upper is less clear, but is narrower, with a series of scored lines radiating out from its top.
Although open to interpretation, incised decoration may be biblical in character; the long ears suggesting the horse is perhaps rather a donkey and with a series of scores around the top of the figure's head potentially being a crown of thorns. The marks on the reverse are difficult to interpret, but with the scores radiating around the top of one perhaps being a simplistic halo - although this is highly tentative.
Dimensions: length 52.8mm; width 48.8mm; thickness 4.0mm; weight 68.18g.
Lead can be easily cast and was done so regularly from the Roman period onwards, simple lead alloy objects are therefore extremely difficult to date outside of an archaeological context. The function of this object is unclear, but it could possibly have served as some sort of lid or mount.
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