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Dress Accessories

197 Brass wires twisted into pairs of cinąuefoils no. 1467 (2:1)

1456    BC72 1860 (55)    11

Copper-alloy wire; three out of the four fragments appear to have been covered with silk, but it has generally decayed. The finer wire is coiled into spirals; d of wires (a) c.0.3mm, (b) 0.8mm; surviving 1 (a) 350mm, (b) c.800mm, 170mm and 105mm.

1457    BC72    2691    (79)    11

Brass wire (AML) covered with silk thread and partly coiled into spirals; two fragments; d 0.2mm; total surviving 1 c.800mm.

1458    BC72    3990    (88)    11

Copper-alloy wire covered with silk thread; d 1.5mm; surviving 1 90mm.

1459    BC72    3992    (88)    11

Brass wire (AML) covered with silk and coiled into spirals; broken into at least eight fragments; d c.0.2mm; longest piece 220mm.

1460    BC72    3995    (88)    11

Copper-alloy wire covered with silk thread and coiled into spirals; four fragments; d 0.8mm; total surviving 1 360mm.

1461    BC72    3624    (150)    11    fig 195

Copper-alloy wire bent into the form of a double circle and hooked at one end, terminating in a point. Covered with unthrown silk thread onto which foundation a series of coiled spiral loops madę from twisted silk-covered wire are bound with silk. Silk veil stitched to wire with thread of two-ply silk; d of wire lmm; surviving 1 570mm.

1462    BC72    4499    (150)    11

Copper-alloy wire with traces of silk thread; 3 fragments; d c.0.6mm; total surviving 1 565mm.

1463    BC72    4500    (150)    11

Brass wire (AML) covered with unthrown silk thread, much of which has decayed leaving the metal exposed; four fragments; d of wire c.0.3mm; total surviving 1 400mm.

1464    BC72    4822    (150)    11

Brass wire (AML) covered with silk thread and coiled into spirals; three fragments; d of wire 0.8mm; surviv-ing 1 125mm.

1465    BC72    2062    (88)    11 fig 194

Iron wire covered with silk thread. Superimposed over this foundation are smali knots madę by interlacing two lengths of finer silk-covered wire (the metal core of which has disintegrated); these wires were then bound to the foundation with a silk thread; d of iron wire 2mm; nine fragments; total surviving 1 c.430mm.

1466    BC72    2613    (79)    11

Brass wire (AML) covered with silk thread and coiled into spirals S-twisted round a piece of silk-covered iron wire in a regular pattern; two fragments; (a) brass wire c.0.2mm, total surviving 1 c.465mm; (b) iron wire d lmm; total surviving 1 176mm.

Wire accessory of uncertain use

1467    TL74 2929 (275) 11 fig 197

Brass wire (AML) twisted into cinąuefoils arranged in pairs. These were worked altemately from one side to the other using two wires. Seven pieces and numerous smali fragments; d of wire c.0.4mm; total surviving 1 c.330mm.