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Description: | A cast circular copper alloy stud/ fastener with remains of enamel on upper surface (diameter: 20mm; thickness: 3.5mm; length of shaft at back: 3.2mm; weight: 3.64g). A slightly convex stud with floral design on the upper face. Six petals surround a central ring of red enamel, within which would have originally held enamel, possibly white. The petals have intermittent coloured enamel in each of them: three with brightly surviving yellow, the other three with possible remains of white. Each petal is shaped like a droplet with pointed ends radiatting outwards. There is green enamel spreading around the petals and central features, with a border of red surrounding the outside. Additionally, there is some of the outer edge green enamel remaining in places. There is one single off-centre stud at the back of the artefact. This feature is very worn and corroded, therefore making it difficult to assess how long the original stud would have been. The fastener is in a slightly worn and corroded especially around the edges where some areas have broken away, but fair condition. Most of the enamel still remains and the colours are still very bright. There are a number of similar examples. Firstly, other enamelled studs and are illustrated in Crummy?s ?Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-9?, page 118, Fig 121, Ref no 3218 particularly. A bronze stud was also found during excavations at Richborough, Kent and is illustrated in Bushe-Fox?s ?Fourth Report on the Excavations of the Roman Fort at Richborough, Kent, 1949, page 124 & plate XXXIV, ref no 79. The stud protruding out from the back of the artefact is much longer and the decoration is different, but the style is still similar. The Richborough example?s head is covered with a thin silver plate in which a geometric pattern has been cut and the interstices filled with niello. Finally, an example is illustrated in Mills ?Celtic & Roman Artefacts?, pages 72-3, Ref no RC205. This example is of flat disc form with four petals in the centre of the mount, the field around them decorated with red enamel. This artefact has been dated to the 1st century AD. | 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
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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