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Description: | A fragment of Roman (AD 320-450) copper alloy multiple-motif bracelet bent into a circle and probably re-used as a finger-ring, measuring an out-of-shape 24.66x22.02mm with an internal roughly circular part 16.88mm in diameter. If a finger-ring, there is a c.20mm overlap. The object weighs 4.2g.The original bracelet may once have been tinned - a greyish residue on the surface remains in places. The break occurs on the end folded inside. This is decorated with a transverse groove shortly before it but is otherwise plain until the overlap, which consists of a panel 16.5mm long decorated with a transverse row of punched circles at either end and a central longitudinal groove. Either side of the groove ,and towards either end, is a single circular punch. Between is a pair of diagonal grooves angled in opposite directions.The bracelet measures 5.99x1.74mm at the break and 5.35x1.16mm at the original end, where it is rectangular in cross-section.Examples of multiple motif bracelets from Colchester (Crummy 1983, p.46 fig.47) date from AD 320-450.
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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