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Description: | A cast copper-alloy stud, 14.9mm in total length. It is circular in plan, with the wider upper face sunk around a high central cone, the upper face measures 24.8mm in diameter. This face tapers into a cylindrical shaft measuring 14.3mm in diameter and 6mm in length. There is a corroded mass of iron on the underside of the cylindrical shaft, implying that there was originally an iron shank projecting from this end of the stud. Corroded iron can also be seen in the centre of the central projecting cone in the upper face, so it seems the iron shank passed through the stud to terminate in the cone.
The function of objects such as this example is uncertain. Similar copper-alloy studs with corroded iron shanks have however been discovered in Coventina's Well and are discussed by Allason-Jones and Mckay 1985, 30). There are various suggestions as to the purpose of these studs, which are found on most Roman military sites in the north. Two types were identified, the copper-alloy cast in one type with an integral pierced shank, which Crummy (1983, 125) classifies as lock pins and the second type with an iron shank rather than an integral copper-alloy one. A bronze box plate from Walheim, Germany decorated with eight such studs, with copper-alloy heads and iron shanks, was found. Therefore it is most likely that this stud is a box fitting as it too has an iron shank.
Three other similar studs have been discovered at hitcham, Suffolk, (see SF-AFE982, SF-AFD315, SF-AEF813). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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