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Description: | Fragment of copper-alloy mount of probable Roman date. Fragment consists of approximately half of a circular mount. The centre of the mount has a circular recessed cell which measures 14.7mm diameter. It has a rim running around the top of the inside, which may have served to hold an inset in place. This recess is badly damaged and incomplete. Around the central cell is a raised ring with a slightly domed surface. This surface is decorated with a repeating scroll design with intermittent heart-shaped recesses. Some of this design is still filled with blue enamel, elsewhere the enamel has been lost. The outer edge of the mount has a simple, narrow, raised rim. The underside of the piece is concave. There is an integral copper-alloy protrusion close to the outer edge. It measures 6.6mm long by 3.1mm in diameter and represents the means by which the mount would have been attached, probably to a wooden casket. The piece has a light green patina and is incomplete and slightly bent. It measures 36.1mm diameter by 4.9mm thick and weighs 8.33g.
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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