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Description: | A copper-alloy seal-box lid of Roman date. Several examples of this category of artefact have been found in excavations at Colchester and the suggested date range is 2nd to 3rd century AD (N. Crummy; 1983; pp. 103-4).
The leaf-shaped lid is an example of a Colchester Type 4. The widest part of the lid is towards the hinge and the sides converge towards the terminal knob. The lower third of each side (adjacent to the knob) is scalloped and the area of the surface just below the hinge has three side by side elongated leaf-shaped voids, which may originally have contained enamel insets. The hinge on this piece is unusual, being on the same alignment as the rest of the object, rather than set at ninety degrees to it. The only feature of the otherwise plain reverse is a small locating pin at the terminal end - this would have served to hold the lid and the bow together accurately.
The object measures 44.2mm long, 26.7mm wide and 5.2mm thick. The weight is 9.74g. | 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: | Julian Watters | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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