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Description: | A corroded fragment of decorated copper-alloy strip, possibly from a Roman bracelet. The strip is in a distorted U shape in plan. One surface is decorated with longitudinal grooving, with a pair of grooves towards one side and a single groove towards the other. At the short ends the truncation is regular suggesting that it was deliberate, as if a new jewellery item was being made from the first (?bracelet). The fragment has a dark-green patina where it survives with the corrosion showing as light green. Red-brown patches suggest recent cleaning. Although early bracelets are thicker the practice of conversion to smaller jewellery items is typically a late one. A wide Roman date is therefore tentatively offered here.
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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