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Description: | A copper-alloy knob-handle which is most likely to be a Roman furniture fitting. The knob has a circular cross-section and measures 23.9mm in length and 17.6mm in width. It has a rounded terminal which is decorated with a deep circumferencial groove it is then waisted before flaring back into a larger terminal again with circumferencial grooves and mouldings. This larger terminal end has a flat underside and a fragment of corroded iron protrudes from this, this is most likely to be the remains of an iron shaft. This shaft fragment appears to have had a square cross-section originally.
This terminal knob is very similar to an example excavated from the Roman site at Hatcheston, Suffolk, this parallel is of the same shape and size and also has the remains of a square cross-sectioned iron shaft projecting from its underside (Blagg, Plouviez and Tester 2004, 125-127, fig 86, no 211). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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