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Description: | An unusual incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman mount, possibly from a box, vessel or strap, too little of the reverse of this object now survives to be sure what it would have been attached to.
The front face is circular in shape and measures 23.5mm in diameter. It has three concentric circular ridges and between these there are the remains of milleforie enamelling. The outer circle contains fragments of a green cross-hatched design with a white background which appears to have originally have been alternated with a red cross-hatched design on a white background. Within the next circle there are fragments of a different pattern, which consits of a small square of red enamel alternating with a square of white enamel with a small flower on it, consisting of a red central dot and four blue petals. The central circle is now empty.
This circular front face originally had sides, a fragment of which survives, measuring 7mm in surviving height. This side fragment projects down and out from the circular front face at a circa 45 degree angle. Traces of a decorative circumferencial ridge can also be seen, this ridge is decorated with tiny transverse grooves. The lower edge of this side is incomplete so how long the sides were originally is unknown.
In the centre of the back face there is an incomplete integral spike, cylindrical in shape and now measuring 5mm in width and 3mm in surviving length. This spike would presumably have originally been the means by which this decorative mount was attached to another larger object.
No exact parallel could be found for this probable mount, however the use of milleforie enamelling during the Roman period is usually attributed to the 2nd or 3rd centuries AD and known on box and strap mounts as well as brooches. | 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: | 100
300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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