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Description: | A cast copper alloy mount, possibly a lock plate, of possible Roman date. The mount is lozenge-shaped with protruding knops in the centre of each side. It measures 25.1mm by 21mm by 4.1mm and weighs 3.9g. Each of the surviving knops has a central perforation and there is an additional circular depression on each corner of the lozenge, one of which goes all the way through to the back. There is a further perforation on one side of the central rectangular hole through the mount, which is adjacent to a break in the flat pyramidic surround. A rectangular raised border of knurling surrounds this. The back of the pyramidic part is hollowed and the front of the mount is tinned or silvered.According to Ralph Jackson (pers. comm.), the overall form and the decoration are acceptable as Roman, but not diagnostically so. Similarly, the opening is not at all diagnostic - it is neither the distinctive L-shaped aperture of the cover plate for Roman slide-key tumbler locks nor the 'key-hole' shape opening of the cover-plates for Roman (and other) rotary locks. It could therefore be a decorative box or casket mount, perhaps for the attachment of a handle.
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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