Record ID: SOM-DAD21E
Object type: ANIMAL COLLAR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval copper alloy dog collar belonging to Samuel Birch of Shilton near Burford in Oxfordshire and dated 1676 on the collar. The collar is a flat strip 41.1mm wide by 1.9mm thick and still bent into a circle with overlapping ends and weighs 335g. The circle is a maximum of 164mm across, although the iron rivets show there was previously more overlap so the diameter would have been smaller, c.140mm. The end of the strip on the inside is square while the end on the outer side has the corners cut at an angle with a straight edge in the centre creating a trapezoid end. There…
Created on: Wednesday 24th August 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashcott CP', grid reference and parish protected.