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Description: | A cast copper alloy object which is probably part of a Roman ferrule. The object is part of a cylinder which is 34mm long, 22.5mm wide and 3.4mm thick. Only about a third of the circumference survives, though the ends of the piece seem to be unbroken. The cylinder is wider at one end than at the other and is decorated with four circumferential bands, the outer two projecting and the inner two decorated with raised dots. The breaks are not recent. Similar examples on the database include NMS-13ABB1 and NMS-719744, and further examples have also been found in a Roman military context at Usk (Manning 1995), dating from the early Roman period (see record LIN-8489D1). The function of these circular mounts is not fully understood. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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