This thing is I think Roman and part of a lamp or something similar ?
The ends are both hollow and one you can see is filled with rusting ferrous metal (iron). So it is a bronze fitting that went on to an iron object.
There is nothing to indicate the iron was fitted both sides; although it could have done and all traces of the iron in the 'clean' side have long since gone. However, there is no iron staining on that side.
The object has incised decoration lines, but is otherwise quite plain
Ideas ?
The ends are both hollow and one you can see is filled with rusting ferrous metal (iron). So it is a bronze fitting that went on to an iron object.
There is nothing to indicate the iron was fitted both sides; although it could have done and all traces of the iron in the 'clean' side have long since gone. However, there is no iron staining on that side.
The object has incised decoration lines, but is otherwise quite plain
Ideas ?
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