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Description: | A Roman stud with copper-alloy globular head and stump of iron shank. The head is spherical but drawn out to meet the iron shank; the exact way these two elements are joined is obscured by corrosion. From the weight the head appears solid and is 11.6mm in diameter with a irregular indent in the centre of the upper side. There are the corroded remains of an iron shank, 16.9mm long and 7.1mm in diameter, split towards the current tip.Similar large spherical headed studs or nails are recorded in Crummy (1983, 115; ref. 2995) although those had copper alloy shanks; similar examples with iron shanks are also recorded on this database, e.g. SUSS-DFE0E6. Crummy (ibid.) suggests these were used on furniture.
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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