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Description: | Cast copper alloy decorative link in a roman necklace. The body of the artefact is rectangular (10mm long) with a gently tapering cross-section (5mm, by 3mm at its widest point) and are decorated with a panel of stamped diagonal hatched lines. At either terminal is a thin rectangular tab with a circular hole in the centre, one has been cast at 90 degrees to the other. This results in one loop arranged on the horizontal plane while the other is on the vertical. Both loops display wear on the outside edge. Length 21mm, width 7.5mm, thickness 7mm, weight 2.03g. Two similar examples excavated at the Uley Shrine in Gloucestershire, had a loop at one end and a hook on the other terminal which would have ached as a fastener of a necklace, one of which was with in a building and dates to the late 4th century (Woodward and Leach, 1993, 59, 162-163) and the other found in a ditch which dated to the late 4th century to early 5th (Woodward and Leach, 1993, 78, 162-163).
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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