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Description: | Curving fragment of late Roman copper alloy bracelet of Clarke's Type D2. It is D-shaped in section and 8.5mm wide (3.5mm thick) at the (possibly recent-ish) break, narrowing to 4.5mm (2mm thick) where the bracelet thins to become 1mm thick and rectangular in section before widening to 6.5mm just before the damaged, unpierced ?eye. This section is decorated with ring-and-dot and appears to have a 2mm wide rectangular panel at its very end. From the main break there is a rib flanked by two grooves beyond which are three central ring-and-dot. On either side of these are ribs and grooves and this sections finished with another rib and two grooves. The second groove is 4mm wide, and another is on its further side after another rib. The next section after this is rib and groove up to the ?eye. The fragment weighs 8.62g. Cf Type D2 bracelets from the cemetery at Lankhills, Winchester in Clarke, G. (1979), The Roman Cemetery at Lankhills , The Clarendon Press, Oxford. Page 308, fig.37. 4th century. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 301
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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