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Description: | Incomplete Roman sheet copper alloy armour scale from a lorica (Roman armour). It is rectangular in shape and apparantly broken at one end (it now has a jagged edge). The opposite end is not damaged and has two semi circular cuttings in the edge, presumably for rivet attachments.Running vertically along the centre of the scale is a rib, created by pushing both edges of the scale inwards to create a ridge (on the reverse is a corresponding furrow). To either side is a wavy line of rocker-arm decoration.At the top of the rib, on the undamaged edge, is a rivet hole 1mm in diameter. On the reverse just below this is some iron staining. There is more iron staining on the jagged edge.Measures 28.6mm (incomplete length) by 21.4mm (width) by 0.75mm (thickness). It weighs 2.36g.Examples of such decorated lorica date to the 1st century. Those of Late Roman date are plainer.Other examples include a stray find from Chichester (Alec Down Chichester Excavations 1971, 12-13, fig.2-3) and from excavations at Newstead (plate XXXVIII, p.161, no.8).
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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