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Description: | Late Iron Age/ Roman bronze end-looped cosmetic mortar, measuring 61.22mm in length and weighing 20.63g.
The bow is elliptical with a central wide V-shaped grooved channel running its length, to the thickened end from which the end-loop projects downwards. There appears to be some polish/ wear towards the top of the grooved channel on both sides.
The bow is max.10.13mm wide and 7.81mm thick. The groove is max.3.29mm deep at the centre.
The loop, which is slighty squahsed in appearance and simply turns around and in on itself, has an oval internal 'diameter' 7.60x6.42mm.
The patina is smooth and dark brown in colour with areas of heavy pitting.
Similar end-looped cosmetic mortars can be seen in Ralph Jackson??s paper on 'Cosmetic sets from the late Iron Age and Roman Britain' (1985: Britannia, Vol. 16, pp165- 192). The closest parallels to this example are catalogue number 22 & 23. Similar examples on the Portable Antiquities Database are BH-0B7117 and YORYM-409D23.
Late Iron Age/ Roman in date, 1st-2nd century AD. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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