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Description: | A cast copper alloy vessel foot possibly from a bucket. The object is roughly semicircular, as if of a circle 39mm in diameter, but has two evenly-spaced semicircular indentations into the edge of the diameter. This therefore leaves two outer tips to the crescentiform shape, and also a central or inner protrusion, and each of these carries a longitudinal notch or groove upon it at the tip. Indeed the notch on the central one becomes an incised groove which crosses the entire face of the object in a straight line and so comes to the central point of the arc opposite. This is effectively a shoe or seg-like mount for the underside of the vessel, and therefore the flat surface has been abraded where it has stood upon the ground. The mount has walls to a maximum height or thickness of 6mm, and the underside is hollow. This example closely resembles others from Somersham Suffolk, and from Kirtling, Cambridgeshire (PAS SF-8BCDC5), and all are related to one at Caerleon (Fortress Baths, Vol II 1986, 174, no 8). The publication calls the type 'common' and cites examples from Richborough published by Bushe-Fox and by Cunliffe, attributing the Caerleon example to the Flavian-Trajanic contexts. That Roman parallel is therefore from the earlier end of the Romano-British spectrum. There is also one, very similar indeed to the present example, on the base of the wine-strainer (beaten or spun copper alloy vessel) found in the Brandon (Suffolk) Late Iron Age hoard (c25-65 AD), which is in the Moyses Hall Museum, Bury St Edmund's (unpublished). | 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: | 25
150 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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