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Description: | An incomplete, corroded and worn cast copper-alloy Roman bell-shaped lock-pin. This artefact is formed of a rectangular section shaft (25.8mm length by 11.1mm width) and a bell-shaped head with high central cone. The spindle head is broadly circular in plan view (diam. 17.9mm), and formed of a concave circular bowl with a central raised and worn cone, a rounded lip which tapers to a narrowed and corroded sub-rectangular neck (13.8mm width), and a lower circular disc (diam. 17.3mm). The shaft has broken at the opposing end around the central perforation. This artefact has an overall red-brown corrosion colour.Roman bell shaped fittings have been identified as furniture or casket fittings, and these examples tend to have the remains of an iron shank. Bell shaped fittings with an integrally cast copper alloy shank have been interpreted as lock-pins. A similar example is illustrated in Crummy (1983:124-125, No. 4143) dated to later Roman contexts c. 250-c. 300 AD.
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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