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Description: | Unidentified object made from cast copper alloy. It is a truncated cone, the larger face 30 mm in diameter and concave, with a decorative groove close to the edge. In the middle is a projection, also a truncated cone, with a ridge around it; the projection is quite short and ends in a flat perforated lug reminiscent of a button loop. The smaller face of the cone is about 12 mm in diameter; it appears to be hollow, and almost completely filled with a grey material which may be decayed solder. The cone is 10 mm thick but the perforated projection increases the total thickness to 14 mm. At first sight the object looks very like a Roman 'bell-shaped stud' (Allason-Jones 1985) - these objects often have iron attachment shanks fixed into the smaller face by lead solder. They have multiple uses, but no parallels to the perforated lug have yet been found. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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