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Description: | Fragment of a copper-alloy mount, probably from a casket or box of some sort. The object is 25 mm long and 12 mm wide. It is decorated on the obverse with two incised ring and dot motifs and it is slightly bevelled. It appears as though further ring and dot motifs would continue up the length of the mount as the traces of a ring are evident where the object is broken. There are two almost identical adjacent chips on the bevel of the complete end. Their uniformity suggests that these formed part of the original decoration as opposed to damage. The reverse is flat and undecorated and there is evidence that the mount was once stuck to something. A circular hole pierces the mount in one corner, disturbing one of the ring and dot motifs. This perhaps suggests that the hole is a later addition to the object, and may reflect an attempt at refixing the mount to something. This object is likely to be Roman in date. | 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 | Creator: | Tom Brindle | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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