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Description: | Mid-Late Iron Age bronze segment from a ?bracelet. It is curving in shape and 41mm long. It is basically rectangular (31x15mm) with two triangular projections (c.8x7x2.5mm) at either short end. It is hollow and V-shaped in section, with short sides extending at 135° to the V section.The outside surface is divided into two panels bound at the short ends by two grooves and correspondingly three ribs. The long edges are flanked by a line of diagonal grooves and ribs, with a pair of grooves either side of a rib on the inside edge. Dividing the surface into two panels is a central rib with a groove running along the middle and horizontal lines cut across to give the impression of pair of tiny squares. This groove-and-rib decoration is probably moulded and not cut after casting.The triangular projections extend from the bottom of the object. The hollow area is oval in shape within the rectangular underside, the surface being rather rough and bumpy. There appears to be a similar bumpiness on the outer, decorated surface - perhaps this is indicative of disease. The surface also has much orange iron staining on it.This segment is very similar to another which is on display in Wiltshire Heritage Museum's Iron Age gallery. However this other example is undecorated. It is assumed the triangular projections inserted into either another segment of other part of the bracelet, if that is what this is. The large ammount of iron staining may suggest one or all of the other component parts were iron and have now corroded away.Weighs 12.02g. Circa 400 BC - 43 AD in date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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