Sign of Iron

”looked like a kind of ornament, made of black metal, a flat circle quartered by two crossed lines.(...) It was about the size of his palm, and quite heavy; roughly forged out of iron, he guessed, though with no sharp points or edges. (...) The surface of the iron was irregular, but though it showed no sign of having been polished it was smooth in a way that reminded him of a certain place in the rough stone floor of the kitchen, where all the roughness had been worn away by generations of feet turning to come round the corner from the door. ” (Susan Cooper: The Dark is Rising)

Belt buckle forged from a single bar of steel
Part of my graduation work.