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Description: | Complete cast copper-alloy Roman mount. The mount is semi-cylindrical, being rectangular in plan and semi-circular in section and hollow. It is 48.5mm long, 26.1mm wide, 19.14mm high and weighs 55.72mm. It is decorated with raised mouldings. These take the form of a central raised band, 9.1mm wide, flanked by U-shaped grooves and then raised moulded bands that are 3mm wide and 4mm high. To either side of these bands there is a space of 6mm, before another, slightly raised band 4mm wide is set at either end of the mount. The semi-cylindrical ends of the mount are integrally capped, with these flat ends being undecorated. The underside of the mount is hollow and undecorated. Two copper-alloy rivets partially survive at either end of the mount, though nothing of the shanks survive. The object is abraded, but the original surface survives mostly intact with an even, dark green patina. Where the object is worn, the exposed surfaces are lighter green. The hollow reverse of the mount is mostly light green with patches of bright green corrosion product. Dr Ralph Jackson of the British Museum comments that this mount is probably of a military nature, but not exclusively so. | 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: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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