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Description: | Copper alloy Roman seal box lid. It is a round disc of copper alloy with enamel decoration. There is a band of copper alloy around a concentric band of enamel, of uncertain original colour but now a pale blue-green. In this are set 8 small roundels of copper alloy with red enamel fill. Inside this band is a roundel of red enamel with a copper alloy framing band. At the centre of this is a small roundel of blue-green enamel. The hinge is still attached and projects from the edge. This consists of two pierced lugs fixed to the remnants of the box sides with the projecting attachment lug of the lid held in place by a short axis bar. It is similar in style and construction to disc plate brooches. Its dimensions are: 21.99mm (diameter), 26.45mm (length & hinge), 1.98mm (disc thickness), 6.00mm (disc thickness with hinge). Weight 3.90g | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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