Find Spot record 16034 - Metal Detecting Find From Abbeyfield

<1> Portable Antiquities Scheme, Various, Portable Antiquities Data Import, LVPL-FE4801 (Digital Archive). SCH5212.

One half of a pair of copper alloy nut crackers dating from the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries. When complete the nutcrackers would have consisted of two complete arms, joined at a single point hinge. The remaining arm tapers gently from the hinge down towards an acorn shaped moulded terminal. The object is semi-circular in cross-section and the outer face is decorated by three sets of paired horizontal ribs. Below this the arm is plain until the acorn moulding. The inner face has multiple horizontal ridges which would have prevented the nut from slipping. The object has a smooth mid green patina but is corroded in places. See (3) for a complete example of this type.

<2> The British Museum, Portable Antiquities Scheme Online Database, LVPL-FE4801 (Web Site). SCH5176.

<3> The British Museum, Portable Antiquities Scheme Online Database, WMID-D15D81 (Web Site). SCH5176.