Pocket watch

A cast copper alloy object. The object is conical and slightly flattened. It consists of an oval band of copper alloy, of which 80% remains. From this, four further bands rise vertically on each side and join to form two loops. One of these is not attached to the oval band due to a break, which is worn. The two loops are decoratively moulded on one side. The loops are pressed together at the top on the undecorated side, but not joined, therefore creating triangular shaped voids between them. It is unclear whether this flattening was by design or has occurred post deposition. The moulded decoration is indistinct. An element of the object has broken off the top of the two loops; these breaks are worn. This object is probably a cage-like mount used to hold seals onto the watch chains of Victorian gentlemen. Documented from an openly licensed real-object photograph on Wikimedia Commons; only the details stated by that source are recorded here. Remaining specifications are marked research required rather than estimated.