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Description: | A heavy copper alloy disc 24.5mm in diameter bearing scribed or incised circles at 19mm and 9mm concentric around a centred sunk pin-hole. These concentric circles are slightly off-centre to the disc itself. On the reverse, which shows a rough cast surface, arises a large perforated lug of similar metal, standing some 10mm high from the disc with a hole 3mm in gauge but countersunk on one face to an overall diameter of 4mm. The disc varies from 2 to 2.5mm in thickness. The surface of the object has a dark blackish-green patination. Good Roman parallels for such objects are shown by Jurgen Oldenstein in his Catalogue of German-Roman auxiliary accessories, with particularly similar examples from Saalburg and Weissenburg, these also showing the large in-cast perforated lug and the incised concentric circles. See his Catalogue Tafel 50 and especially pages 255-259 under the heading'Kleine runde Beschlage, sogenannte Knoepfe'- Beschlage mit gelochtem Band, sogenannte Schildnagel (i.e.'Shield-nails'). Beschlage mit flacher, profilierter Kopfplatte, esp. nos 571-573. | Subjects: | Knoepfe type (Roman?) Schildnagel | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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