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Description: | A cast copper-alloy stud, 16.3mm in total length. It is circular in plan, with the wider upper face sunk around a high central cone (c4mm in height), the upper face measures 19.4mm in diameter. The underside of this face is waisted and then flares into a conical part with a base diameter of 14mm. Within the underside is a fragment of a corroed iron shank which appears to have been rectangular in cross-section originally. The function of objects such as this example is uncertain. Similar copper-alloy studs with corroded iron shanks have however been discovered in Coventina's Well and are discussed by Allason-Jones and Mckay (1985, 30). There are various suggestions as to the purpose of these studs, which are found on most Roman military sites in the north. Two types were identified, the copper-alloy cast in one type with an integral pierced shank, which Crummy (1983, 125) classifies as lock pins and the second type with an iron shank rather than an integral copper-alloy one. A bronze box plate from Walheim, Germany decorated with eight such studs, with copper-alloy heads and iron shanks, was found. Therefore it is most likely that this stud is a box fitting as it too probably had an iron shank. Similar studs have been discovered at Hitcham (see SF-AEA0D2, SF-AFD315, SF-AEF813).
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