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Description: | Fragment of copper-alloy bracelet. One end is (oldish break) but the other retains a curled-back snake-head terminal. The body of the bracelet is very worn, but some decoration can just be seen - a groove running along either edge, with oblique nicks surviving in some places across the groove. Very close to the terminal, the oblique grooving seems to run right across the width of the bracelet, and it may be that the lines appear to be across the groove only because they are worn away from everywhere else. The bracelet drastically narrows at the surviving terminal, then turns back on itself and ends in a snake's head. This is rather stylised, and looks perhaps more like a flower bud; there are two lobes, like sepals or ears, at the back of the head and no eyes or any other detail survives. Uncurled length 90 mm; maximum width 6 mm; weight 10.74g. Roman, late third or fourth centuries AD.
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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