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corinne mills

Joined: 01 Jan 1970Posts: 958

Location: Brightlingsea, Colchester, Essex

durotrigian

Joined: 11 Jun 2005Posts: 450

Location: Tollandune, near Gislandune

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:14 pm    Post subject:

interesting ideas raised on the PAS discussion board (till the thread got a bit hijacked!)_________________

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Cally

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 92

Location: Wiltshire

Tetricus

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Location: South-East Essex

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:23 pm    Post subject:

Nice find Co

corinne mills

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Location: Brightlingsea, Colchester, Essex

D

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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:53 pm    Post subject:

Thats no flipping good, it has funny letters on it……

corinne mills

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Location: Brightlingsea, Colchester, Essex

corinne mills

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Location: Brightlingsea, Colchester, Essex

D

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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:06 pm    Post subject:

The right of the pic, is that what a chopped piece looks like?

corinne mills

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Location: Brightlingsea, Colchester, Essex

D

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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:16 pm    Post subject:

They may have turned it upside down to chop the left then.

corinne mills

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Location: Brightlingsea, Colchester, Essex

D

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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:24 pm    Post subject:

Classic, I wonder if there is plough damage on it…..

corinne mills

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Location: Brightlingsea, Colchester, Essex

Jean

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 227

Location: Bristol

durotrigian

Joined: 11 Jun 2005Posts: 450

Location: Tollandune, near Gislandune

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:46 pm    Post subject:

so it’ll be a middle surviving bit of inscription with letters chopped off at both ends.

epigraphers can now have decades of fun arguing about how to reconstruct the text!

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Wulfgar

Joined: 17 Aug 2005Posts: 1

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:30 pm    Post subject:

The text appears to be IN English runes (NOT Elder Fuþark) and to read: …t æ a … …g d e …

No nearer to understanding what it says though :0(

corinne mills

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Location: Brightlingsea, Colchester, Essex

Chris D

Joined: 17 Jun 2005Posts: 29

Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:55 pm    Post subject:

Oooh Superb

Interesting the way it appears to be cut up. Ritually killed I wonder?

melter

Joined: 10 Jun 2005Posts: 573

Location: Sheffield

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:27 pm    Post subject:

Cut up to be used as currency?_________________

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Chris D

Joined: 17 Jun 2005Posts: 29

Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:31 pm    Post subject:

melter wrote:
Cut up to be used as currency?

Could be. Or possibly it might have been part of a hoard of scrap cut up and buried for later recovery by a metalworker. Similar to the “founders hoards” that occur in the Bronze Age.

I’ve never heard if this occuring in the post- Roman period ,although that might just be me being unfamiliar with the subject.

Jean

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 227

Location: Bristol

corinne mills

Joined: 01 Jan 1970Posts: 958

Location: Brightlingsea, Colchester, Essex

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 11:42 am    Post subject:

havent been about much as ive been in Scotland since a week ago yesterday and my Dad passed away on Tuesday night – will be home after the funeral early next week I had an email from the Museum yesterday Jean – it says:

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Hi Co, I have now had a response from Leslie Webster at the BM who has been away. She is deffering judgment until she sees the widget, but has passed details over to another expert at Nottingham University, so there are lots of people on the case now!

Caroline my FLO will be taking the find to the BM in early September (I hope to go with her is I can get the time off work) You can read about the progress of the treasure find on the PAS blog site (not yet announced) here

http://www.finds.org.uk/wordpress/category/treasure-process/

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Jean

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 227

Location: Bristol

Valerie

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 364

Location: Paisley, Scotland

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:27 pm    Post subject:

Sorry to hear that Co, but I am aware that has been unwell for some time.
Please pass on my sympathy and best wishes to your Mum and sister and the rest of the family.
 

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