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Description: | Fragment of flat and slightly curving 18x38mm object, very thin (c.0.3mm thick) and broken at one end (ancient break). At the complete end is a panel of four ring-and-dot flanked by a horizontal row of point-opposing triangular stamps. From this point four pairs of tiny stamped dots rise vertically and roughly equidistant, from long edge to long edge, to the break. The reverse is flat and smooth. A corner of the complete end is missing (ancient break). The style of the object is Roman, although the shape is perhaps reminiscent of an Anglo Saxon wrist clasp. If a bracelet, it is not of a hook and eye type. Clarke's Type E2 has a butt terminal, but pierced. No.502 on fig.37 has its very end flanked by four ring-and-dot, like this object. Other examples (not illustrated) have a line of punched dots. However, these elements are common decoration of ornament in this period.
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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