Lead plaque

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Lead plaque

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A lead plaque with an inscriptions both in runes and, more extensively, in Old English, paraphrasing the introduction to an Anglo-Saxon text, the First Book of Catholic Homilies by Aelfric. It was apparently intended to serve as a cover of some kind. There is a border of two inscribed parallel lines around the inscriptions. The right hand edge of the plaque is pierced with three holes with the bottom hole having a lead loop. This may be a scholarly fake of the eighteenth or nineteenth century in Anglo-Saxon style.

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