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Description: | Incomplete copper-alloy Roman bracelet fragment of the penannular armlet type. One terminus and a length of the main body remain. The bracelet is essentially flat being roughly rectangular in section. The remaining terminus is trapezoidal in plan with a a single groove running around the edge of the upper surface and there are five transverse grooves running across where the terminus and main bracelet body merge. It has been suggested that this shape represents a very stylised snake's head. The main body of the bracelet is plain except for a series of short (2mm)diagonal grooves running for about the first 15-20mm above the aforementioned transverse grooves, these run along both edges only and do not meet. The bracelet would have orignally been rounded and the fact that the piece has an undulating (wavy) appearance when viewed from the side is a good indicator that the item has been deliberately flattened at some point in the past.
Similiar examples have been recovered from the Colchester excavations and these have been dated to the 3rd-4th Centuries.
Ref: N. Crummy, The Roman Small Finds from the Excavations in Colchester: 1971-1979', p.40, pl.42-4. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burrill, Charlotte - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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