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Description: | A fragment from a copper alloy bracelet of Roman date. It is flat, slightly oval shaped in section and rectangular in plan. The surviving section of the band has been folded into a circle, athough only one portion from close to the end of the bracelet survives intact, the remainder missing due to old breaks. The exterior surface has decoration comprising a decorated ring and dot motif at one end followed by two incised transverse grooves. From the grooves extend a single, central longitudinal groove either side of which are rows of triangles at the exterior edges of the bracelet. The central groove and triangles stop just above the terminal end where there are seven transverse incised grooves. Here the band constricts slightly and the start of the terminal with circular perforation can be seen, but this terminates in old breaks. The entire object (folded) measures 19.45mm in length, 5.77mm in width, 1.06mm in thickness, and weighs 1.81g.
This is a fragment from the terminal end of a Roman bracelet similar to Crummy's multiple motif types noted in Roman Colchester. Indeed, two examples in Colchester are near identical in terms of shape and decoration (Crummy, 1983: nos. 1725, 1729) as is an example on the PAS database from Suffolk (SF-F8A9F6). These suggest a date in the 3rd-4th centuries AD for the current example. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Brown, Andrew | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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