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Description: | Copper alloy terminal knob and part of tubular metal sleeve from the handle of a mace or sceptre comparable to the finds from Willingham Fen, Cambridgeshire, and from Wanborough Roman temple, Surrey. The sleeve has girdling ribs or mouldings at intervals along it, with smooth sections between, this fragment representing only the first tier of that ornament. The diameter of the bronze sleeve was 15.2mm, and that of the terminal boss 23.6mm, its depth 13.1mm. The surviving length of sleeve not including the boss is 18.3mm and the overall length is 31.8mm. The object has a heavy and shiny brown patination which is fully abraded to reveal green corrosion products in various parts of the boss. For comparanda see R. Hobbs, Treasure - Finding Our Past (British Museum 2003, 142-144 and Fig 110 p 145; see also M. Henig, Religion in Roman Britain (Batsford 1984), 136-141 and Plate 62 (p 140). A Roman object of ritual function.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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