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Description: | A cast copper-alloy stud, 21.11mm in total length, of Roman date. It is circular in plan, with the wider upper face sunk around a high central cone, the upper face measures 20.93mm in diameter, the sucnken face around the central cone is now filled with corroded iron.
The wider upper face tapers gently towards the underside of the stud, which is cylindrical measuring 18.06mm in diameter and 6mm in length. In the centre of the underside is a rectangular hole, which passes through the centre of the stud and is 16.5mm in depth, 8.7mm by 6.3mm in size. There are traces of corroded iron surrounding this hole, implying that there was originally an iron shank fitted into it and projecting from this end of the stud.
Similar copper-alloy studs with corroded iron shanks have been discovered in Coventina's Well and are discussed by Allason-Jones and Mckay 1985, 30). A bronze box plate from Walheim, Germany decorated with eight such studs, with copper-alloy heads and iron shanks, was found. Therefore it is most likely that this stud is a box fitting as it too has an iron shank. Three other similar studs have been discovered at Hitcham, Suffolk, (see SF-AFE982, SF-AFD315, SF-AEF813, SF-AEA0D2). | 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 | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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