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Record ID: NLM-1A1E1A
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible needle case. A neatly rolled tube of sheet metal of thickness 1mm, with a longitudinal butted seam, slightly tapered, and with a tiny flat turned over to close the narrower end. The imaginative use of rolled construction in sheet metal is known from Roman contexts, while the idiosyncratic method might be equally at home in an Anglo-Saxon context. Slightly bent. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-850
Length: 79mm, Thickness (wall): 1mm, Diameter: 6.5mm, Weight: 8.01gms
Created on: Wednesday 15th September 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 15th September 2021
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This findspot is known as 'near Stamford Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LON-E3F661
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman - Early Medieval bone artefact probably a needlecase daring 4th - 5th century. This bone artefact has been worked to have four flat sides creating a square-shaped cross-section and it is hollow. It tapers from 6.36mm slightly to one end (5.58mm) and more so to the other end (4.17mm). There is wear and damage to both ends. All four sides are decorated with ring and dot motifs. Side one has four sets of three ring and dots arranged to form a trefoil. Side two has two ring and dot trefoils flanked by three ring and dots arranged in a line. Side three is a repeat of si…
Created on: Friday 18th February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2012
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