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Description: | Unidentified copper-alloy object, consisting of a flat plate, now roughly Y- or T-shaped. One end of the stem is rounded, and on this is a hemispherical knob sitting above a narrow waist; this presumably functioned as an attachment button. The knob is decorated around its base with a fine circumferential groove; three semi-circular grooves spring from this and nearly meet to form a triangle on the top of the knob. There is also a groove around the edge of the plate beneath the waist. At the other end of the short stem the concave sides then flare out to form two broken arms. The upper edge, forming the other edge of the arms, is also concave. Each arm has a broad groove, V-shaped in cross-section, but very soon ends in a cut or break. The arms are of slightly different lengths and the angles of the cuts/breaks are different, so it looks as if they are broken; but the breaks are so neat that they look more like cuts or original edges. Both front and reverse are smoothly polished. Attachment buttons are known from medieval and early post-medieval objects, but the engraved decoration on this one (together with its findspot on a known Roman site) makes it more likely to be Roman. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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