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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy object, probably a lock-pin. The lock pin has a rectangular-sectioned shaft which is now highly corroded, some of the tip, including the perforation which would securely identify this as a lock pin, has been lost to an old break and the remaining tip has broken more recently. The rectangular section of the shaft at the base and the use of copper alloy still suggests it is a lock pin rather than a simialr furniture stud. The shaft rises from the curved base of the large, bowl-shaped, terminal knop; the base has a distinct step inwards halfway up. The upper face of the knop is slightly sunken around a large central pellet encircled by a fine raised line; one rim is slightly damaged. It is 26.9mm long and the head is 25.8mm in diameter. It weighs 23.90 grams. A similar example is illustrated in Crummy (1981), p.125, ref. 4143, from a 2nd century context.
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