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Description: | A copper alloy Roman seal box lid which is lozenge shaped. The ends of the lozenge are slightly extended and rounded and there are rounded projecting lugs at the other two corners. These lugs cover the notches in the sides of the lid through which the cord would have passed. The seal box is 52.7mm long and 25.6mm wide across the projecting lugs.
The lid is decorated with a central circular cell containing enamel which appears to be dark blue, with a copper alloy dot in the centre. This is surrounded by a lozenge shaped cell containing enamel which appears to be dark red, and there is a copper alloy dot on each side of the central cell. Round the edge is a border cell of dark blue enamel.
The reverse of the lid is hollow. There is a sub-rectangular tab forming the hinge through which is a pin which would have acted as the hinge pin. It is 11mm thick at the hinge. The metal is in good condition, a dark brown colour with some patches of bright green corrosion. A lozenge shaped seal box body is known from Aldborough (Bishop 1996) and a 2nd or 3rd century date is suggested for it. | 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 | Creator: | Amy Downes | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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