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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman stud or box fitting. It is circular in plan, with the wider upper, face, 22.58mm in diameter sunk around a high central cone with two concentric grooves. The underside of this face has a waisted cylindrical neck measuring 11.13mm in diameter and 4.98mm in length. Projecting from the underside of this neck the object has the remains of an iron shank, rectangular in cross section. The overall length of the object is 10.43mm. Similar copper-alloy studs with corroded iron shanks have been discovered in Coventina's Well and are discussed by Allason-Jones and Mckay (1985, 30). There are various suggestions as to the purpose of these studs, which are found on most Roman military sites in the north. Two types were identified, the copper-alloy cast in one type with an integral pierced shank, which Crummy (1983, 125) classifies as lock pins and the second type with an iron shank rather than an integral copper-alloy one. A bronze box plate from Walheim, Germany decorated with eight such studs, with copper-alloy heads and iron shanks, was found. Therefore it is most likely that this stud is a box fitting as it too has an iron shank. Other similar studs have been discovered at Hitcham, Suffolk, (see SF-AFE982, SF-AFD315, SF-AEF813, SF-AEA0D2).
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