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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy harness pendant, of probable mid to late 4th Century Date.The pendant is leaf-shaped, with a broken attachment ring at one end. The upper surface is decorated with a design that looks like a fish with ring and dot design around the edges. The 'fish' is comprised of a large depressed circle, with a smaller indent at its centre. There is a sub-rectangular depression with concave sides extending from one edge of the circle. The edge opposite the circle has a sub-triangular depression extending from it, again with concave siges. There are four evenly spaced ring-and-dots above and below the 'fish' and another at the end of the tail. The reverse is blank.It is 34mm long, 21mm wide, 2mm thick and weighs 4.5 grams.Leaf-shape harness pendants with an integral suspension loop can be found across the Roman Empire (from South Shields to Dura Europos), and are usually early Roman (1st-2nd century AD) in date. However, Rob Collins has commented that "I wouldn't be surprised if it is a long-lived form or 3rd and 4th century date. The decoration would suggest to me a more likely date of mid-late 4th c, fitting in with those late Roman motifs that we see on buckles, bracelets, brooches, and nail-cleaners."
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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