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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy seal box lid of Roman date. The seal box would have originally been leaf-shaped the remains of which is triangular in shape, due to an irregular transverse break, and has three circular perforations with diameters of approximately 2.30mm set out in triangular formation. The triangular remains of the lid have a maximum width of 17.66mm, are 1.73mm thick and 16.89mm long. The two surviving edges of the lid are bent over at a curving and approximate 90 degrees by 2.30mm. At the tip of the lid is a projection 3.82mm long, 2.74mm wide and 2.16mm thick. The surviving fragment has a total length of 20.71mm. One of the holes is set c.6.07mm from the start of the projection, below and between the other two. Above and between the other two perforations, in line with and 7.54mm above the first hole by the projection, is a slight curve in the irregular line of the transverse break across the lid. Considering the location of this curve it might suggest the original presence of a fourth perforation. This fragment weighs 1.91g.See Bishop, M.C.1996, p36-37, no.202.For similar examples see PAS records: LEIC-CF6098, LIN-A0D9F7, SUR-FF47A5, SF-B878E3, YORYM-EB81B5, SF-B70F11, DENO-1A6427, NMS-2F19E7, LIN-D22133, NLM1026 and HAMP-255E15.
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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