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Description: | Incomplete Late Iron Age/ Roman copper alloy ferrule or possible bead, consisting of a strip of sheet copper alloy rolled into a flattish ring, 2.57mm thick at one open end and 1.63mm thick at the other. It is damaged to the underside, where the two halves join, and missing the thinned edge here.
The ferrule or bead is 18.89mm long, 21.79mm wide and 17.29mm high (its internal measurements are 16.76x13.04mm). It is decorated with two concentric incised lines. On the underside, these peter out where the surface is flattened. It is likely this part would have been underneath an overlapping edge, which is now missing.
A similar object has been recorded from Weston Under Penyard, Herefordshire (HESH-3A6F76). This is described as a copper alloy bead of probable late Iron Age or Early Roman date (50BC-200AD), veering more towards the Early Roman date. Although very similar, this object has been cast in one piece. The Wiltshire example is likely to be of a similar date. | 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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