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Description: | An incomplete and corroded copper-alloy bracelet of late Roman date. The artefact is sub-rectangular with a rectangle with rounded corners form in cross-section. It has been bent and slightly twisted as a result of old damage. The bracelet is decorated unifacially using multiple motifs. Bracelets decorated using different motifs have been found in this country and on the continent (see for example Crummy (1983, 46; fig. 47), Swift (2000, 154; fig. 192)). This example begins indistinctly due to wear, after which is a transverse ridge. Between this latter and a second transverse ridge are three concentric rings in low relief, outside which four raised triangles. Beyond this is a second group of the same rings and ridge. A similar treatment can be found on a bracelet from Krefeld-Gellep illustrated in Swift (2000, 154; fig. 192). Beyond the ridge is a longitudinal field divided into three lines of punched diagonal lines. The outer lines of diagonals travel in the same direction while in the central line the diagonals travel at 180 degrees to the other diagonals. This motif is similar to the central field on a bracelet found in Colchester (Crummy 1983, 46; ref. 1730). Beyond is a further group of concentric circles within transverse ridges, beyond which another field with the three lines of diagonals. Beyond this latter corrosion product obscures the decoration; if the single group of concentric circles is taken to be the centre of the bracelet and the decoration symmetrical, it would follow that there would be a group of two lots of concentric circles flanked by ridges. As has been alluded to above, this bracelet shares motifs with examples found both on the continent and in this country without being identical to any of those in the works consulted. Such a bracelet would have probably been fastened by a hook-and-eye clasp; neither hook nor eye seemingly survive. | 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
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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