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Description: | A copper-alloy terminal, probably of a Roman bracelet, with bead and reel decoration. This incomplete artefact is a dark brownish grey where the surface is intact and a mid green patina where the surface has been disturbed. The artefact has an oval cross-section, 4.10mm x 3.13mm at the transverse break and a flat circular cross-section at the terminal end that has a diameter of 8.07mm. The surface of the shaft has repeated decoration starting at the terminal end and continuing for c.20.90mm. At the edge of the terminal is a raised band or rib 0.63mm wide. This is followed by a narrow groove before the shaft increases in diameter to 8.83mm to form a bead that is 4.89mm wide and decorated by narrow and shallow lateral incisions, which are spaced approximately 0.82mm apart. As the bead curves inwards a second narrow groove is present before being followed by another narrow raised band/rib of the same width. The shaft then forms a concave band 2.36mm wide with the diameter decreasing to 5.78mm. This pattern is repeated as the shaft starts to taper away from the terminal end, with a total of three beads and two concave bands. After the final bead this repeated decoration ends with a narrow groove, narrow raised band/rib and final narrow groove. From this final groove two narrow incised grooves angle in from the sides to form the start of a triangle. When they are c.1.87mm away from each other, about 6.84mm from the last transverse groove, they turn out again slightly and travel along the upper centre of shaft approximately as parallel lines for c.6.92mm. The surface decoration is then destroyed by corrosion affecting c.9.16mm length of the shaft. The two lines must merge as past this area of corrosion there is only a single central groove for the last c.10.79mm of the shaft. Some form of figurative decoration might be present in the triangular area, although it is unclear as to what form the decoration is or whether the area has just suffered from corrosion.See Bishop, M.C. Finds from Roman Aldborough: A Catalogue of Small Finds from the Romano-British Town of Isurium Brigantum. 1996, Oxbow Monograph 65, p.49-50, no.296.Also see Crummy, N. Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9. 1983, p.44-5, fig.46, no.1717.
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