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Description: | A copper alloy escutcheon, probably from a Roman vessel. The mount is large and heavy. It consists of a flat, sub-triangular plate with an extension from one side which is a slightly waisted rectangular shape with a rounded end. Three rivets, one in each corner of the plate, fasten the mount to a thinner sheet of copper alloy which only survives between the rivets. The rivets are of copper alloy and are rounded bumps on the outside and flat circles on the inside.
There is a fourth, highly decorated, copper alloy rivet through the rounded end of the extension. It has a 25mm diameter dome on the inside and the outside. The domes are decorated with two incised rings, one round the edge and one around the centre of both domes. Sandwiched between the domes are the rounded end of the extension and two thinner pieces of copper alloy sheet which have broken edges. It is possible that one piece was originally part of the thin sheet trapped by the three other rivets, though they no longer join. The breaks in the two thin sheets have made them roughly the same shape as the domes. It is unclear how large and what shape they were originally.
The escutcheon is severely bent across the end of the rounded extension where it joins the triangular plate. The bend is not recent, yet is probably not pre-depositional either; there is a dark brown patina on the bent area, but a thicker, dark green patina on the rest of the object which has been damaged around the bend. The triangular plate is also slightly bent, the bend being at a forty five degree angle to the main bend, and similar damage has been caused here too. There is a fresh break in one of the thin sheets trapped between the domes.
The mount would originally have been 83mm long from the rounded end to the point of the triangle opposite. The triangle is 56.7mm wide. From the apex of one dome to the apex of the other is 17.9mm. The main plate of the mount is 3.3mm thick. The thinner plates are only 1 to 2 mm thick. The escutcheon is so substantial it must have come from a sizeable vessel, or maybe it is from a piece of furniture. Other Roman fittings and mounts decorated in a similar style can be seen in Bishop (1996). | 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 | Creator: | Amy Downes | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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