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Description: | An incomplete early Roman copper alloy bracelet (or armlet) dating from the the first century AD. The bracelet is large and wide (18.92mm) and has a distinct convexed transverse section. The bracelet is wider in the centre of the fragment and tapers slowly to either side. There are multiple motifs incised on the outer band of the bracelet, consisting of transverse lines, triple-walled triangles with internal feathering and triple-walled rectangles with internal cross hatching. In its current form the bracelet is folded over so that the two ends (both broken) are nearly touching, therefore penannular in plan. This type of bracelet is unusual and in a search of several site reports available to the FLO the only examples illustrated are from Colchester (Crummy 1983). Of these two examples (no's 1586 & 1587), only one is from a secure context although both are suggested to be early Roman, c. AD 43-100.
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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