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Description: | A worn and abraded fragment probably from a cast copper-alloy Roman toilet article. The fragment has a sub-trapezoidal shape and appears to be broken at both ends. It is decorated seemingly unifacially with an incised cross in saltire between two transverse incisions. The longer edges on this face also have diagonal nicks. The end featuring the cross decoration incurves to a width of 4.2mm at the break, from 7.2mm. From the decorated end the fragment tapers to a minimum width of 4.1mm. At this end the object widens slightly to 4.9mm; there is a slight indentation to both sides before what appears to be the beginning of a broken loop. Whilst this could have been part of a toilet article such as a nail cleaner, the putative loop may have been the end loop of a bracelet.
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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