The Lead Pad from Staunch Meadow, Brandon, Suffolk: Was it used to create cross-hatched gold foils?
Author(s): Eleanor Blakelock
Excavations at Brandon, Suffolk, revealed a lead pad that may have been used as a backing for fine metalworking. The evidence suggests that it was used for some kind of fine metalworking but was probably not used as a backing when creating cross-hatched patterns on gold foils. The depressions on the pad were most likely created by either a die or an individual punch tool.
- Report Number:
- 23/2005
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 8
- Keywords:
- Early Medieval Lead Metal Working-non Fe Technology
