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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy mount of Roman date. It is circular in form, flat, slightly concave and is missing large areas of the edges due to old breaks. The front face has moulded decoration comprising a circle in relief around the centre, possibly with the remains of a central dot or ring in relief. The back face is undecorated but has two opposing integral copper-alloy rivets that are cylindrical in form and have flattened, oval shaped roves/terminals. The object measures 26.15mm in diameter, 2.99mm in thickness, and weighs 7.58g. This is a Roman mount probably related to military equipment or horse harnesses. Similar 2nd to 3rd century AD examples are published in Oldenstein (1976: pls. 49, 56, 58), often with a central dome-shaped moulding and typically with integral rivets that have flattened terminal ends as is the case with the current example.
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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