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Object Type
Museum number: 1970,0406.727
Description: Copper-alloy plate with remains white metal (?tinning) on both sides: rectangular piece copper-alloy sheet with rivet hole at each corner and three surviving copper-alloy rivets; one end square other possibly with slightly rounded corners; front bears punched decoration around the edge of large V-shape enclosing smaller V-shape; remains incised decoration in centre; organic remnants.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Mucking, grave 844 cemetery II, inhumations
Materials: copper alloy; white metal; organic
Technique: tinned; punched; incised
Dimensions: Length: 25 millimetres (main fragment); Weight: 25.30 grammes; Width: 20 millimetres (main fragment)
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1970
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1970,0406.727

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