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Description: | Cast copper-alloy seal box. Roman period. Mass: 5.0g; length: 30mm; width: 19.3mm; depth: 8.0mm. The seal box is lozenge shaped in plan, and the lid is detached from the incomplete base which is in two adjoining pieces. There is a grid pattern on the lid consisting of reserved champlevé enamelled, lozenge-shaped cells. The outer fields are now off-white/light blue. The central field is yellow. Around the central field there are four cells, two of which contain an unidentified dark coloured enamel, one has a red enamel surface, and the third has an incomplete red surface and a more recessed darker coloured fill. There is a knop on one end of the lid, a hinge on the other, and notches in the other corners. The underside of the lid is recessed (hollow), as is the (incomplete) base which is also perforated with circular holes. There is an incomplete double lug at one end to attach the lid. The greatest period of use of seal boxes is the 2nd century, and examples are rare on late 3rd and 4th century sites (Worrell, 2004, unpublished).
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