Record ID: HAMP1442
Object type: POINTER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy ?pointer. Both ends missing. Circular-sectioned shaft, expanding out, before tapering in to other end. Features resembling legs, wings and curling tendrils are moulded on to all surfaces. The end which would have represented the head is missing. Much heavy gilding survives. Finely cast. No parallel for this object has been found and the identification of its function as a pointer is tentative, although possible.
Created on: Friday 5th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HAMPSHIRE HEADBOURNE WORTHY', grid reference and parish protected.