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Description: | A bent and worn cast copper-alloy fragment from a Roman bracelet. The artefact includes a diagnostic hook terminal. This shows that the bracelet of which this fragment once formed part would have been fastened by a hook-and-eye clasp. Beyond the terminal the bracelet widens from 3.0mm to 4.9mm at the point of breakage. The majority of this area is decorated on the obverse by transverse grooves and associated ridges. This decoration gives way towards the break to decoration by what appear to be diagonal grooves; such decoration is difficult to discern given the wear suffered by the object. The reverse is plain. As alluded to above, the fragment has been bent round on itself one-and-a-half times; it is impossible to assert whether this was deliberate with the intention of creating a ring or if it was the result of old damage. The fragment has a dusty light green patina and an unbent length of c. 40mm. This artefact bears similarities with a bracelet illustrated in Crummy (1983, 46; ref. 1730). This too tapers to the terminals and features the same grooved incisions. Given the apparent change in decoration on the fragment it could have been part of a bracelet with multiple motifs, as with the Crummy example. The fragment is late Roman in date.
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