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Description: | Enamelled copper alloy lid from a seal-box, probably dating to the second or third centuries AD. The lid is leaf-shaped and has a circular hinge at the rounded end set at a right angle to the plane of the lid. The pointed end has an incomplete, integral stud on the reverse. The surface of the lid is decorated with a heart-shaped rim which has a rib running half way down the top. This divides the lid into two crescentric cells to either side with a heart shaped cell in the centre. The outer cells are filled with red enamel and the inner with orange, although most of it is now missing. The pointed terminal of the plate is decorated with three ring and dot motifs.
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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