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Description: | A cast copper-alloy stud, 15.2mm in total length. It is circular in plan, with the wider upper face sunk around a high central cone (8.1mm in height), the upper face measures 18.2mm in diameter. This face tapers into a cylindrical shaft measuring 12.4mm in diameter and 4mm in length. There is a roughly rectangular shaped slit in the underside of the cylindrical shaft with traces of corroed iron within it. This implies that there was originally an iron shank projecting from this end of the stud.
The function of objects such as this example is uncertain. Similar copper-alloy studs with corroded iron shanks have however 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 probably had an iron shank.
Three other similar studs have been discovered at Hitcham (see SF-AEA0D2, SF-AFD315, SF-AEF813). | 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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