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Description: | A fragment of a copper-alloy bracelet of Roman date.
The piece consists of one terminal end from a flat-section or ribbon strip bracelet, similar examples to which have been found in 4th century layers at Baldock (I.M. Stead and V. Rigby; 1986; pp. 125) and Bancroft villa (R.J. Williams and R.J. Zeepvat; 1994; pp. 303-4). It is thin in section, with a flat inner face and slightly domed upper face into which a number of motifs have been punched and incised. The squared-off terminal end has two pairs of ring and dot marks separated by a short segment of trapezoidal section with two incised crosses in its surface. A short blank area separates the terminal section from the main body of the bracelet, which is decorated with a series of closely-spaced vertical incisions.
The object is bent and slightly worn. The metal strip is 5.2mm high by 1mm thick, whilst the bracelet as a whole is 17.8mm long by 22.4mm wide in its current form. It weighs 2.02g. | 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: | 300
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Julian Watters | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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