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Description: | Cast copper alloy Roman mount, probably a furniture fitting or similar. The mount is circular in plan and domed in section. The bottom of the mount is formed from a circular disc, with a deep circumfral-grooved line. Rising up from the centre of the disk is the main domed body of the mount, slightly smaller in diameter. This is plain. Extending from the top of the dome is a circular sectioned projection or ?neck?, which flares slightly. The neck then becomes wasted and then terminates in a globular knop. To the flat underside of the mount are the remains of an iron shaft, now obscured by iron corrosion product. The object is worn, but much of the original surface survives with an even dark green patina. Exposed surfaces are mid grey-green. The mount is 22.46mm long, of which 6.38mm is the projection and 4.84mm is the globular terminal. The circular base is 19.5mm in diameter, whilst the main domed body is 17.32mm in diameter. The object weighs 24.54g. Similar, though less decorative, mounts can be see in Allason-Jones and Miket, 1984, The catalogue of small finds from South Shields Roman fort, numbers 3.734-6. An almost exact mount, but less well made, was found in the same area and is recorded as ESS153B31. | 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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