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Description: | Incomplete possibly Roman copper alloy lobate hinge plate, possibly from body armour (lorica segmentata), cast sub-rectangular plate with substantial twin semi-circular perforated hinges (7mm thick), containing corroded remains of iron pin, flanking semi-circular cut-outs with their ends projecting beyond the sides of the plate which is pierced by four rivet-holes with three surviving copper alloy decorative dome-headed rivets. The plate has one of originally two projecting lobes at the junction between sides and broken attachment-end which is broken across a small central perforation between two larger perforations, one with a better surviving although distorted fragmentary outer edge from which projects a triangular lobe. Iron staining and corrosion on reverse. >57 x 38mm. See Bishop and Coulston (2006), fig. 85, no.s 2-3. There is a possibility that the object is post-medieval. Having examined digital photographs Ralph Jackson of the British Museum comments: 'In favour [of a Roman date], the 3/2 hinging and general appearance. Against, the size, too large - usually approx 30 x 28 mm - and excessive number of rivets. I do not know much about 17th-cent furniture fittings, but your object does look Roman-period, so I think your cautiously-expressed entry is about right.'
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