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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman furniture fitting, probably a lock-pin missing its iron shaft. The remains of the furniture fitting consist of the copper alloy upper decorative handle, which is in a 'bell' shape, with an upper bevelled disk, which tapers to a narrowed middle, ending in a widened discoidal base. The outer surface is decorated with concentric raised rings and a central recessed dot; further raised rings decorate the base of the upper segment and delineate the plan narrowed middle with the lower discoidal base. A fragment of a circular iron shaft is visible on the underneath of the bell-shaped handle, suggesting that the functional shaft was composed of iron. As the shaft is missing its is impossible to say the precise function of the object, however they are usually associated with furniture fittings, lock-pins or horse harness furniture. The object is similar to a bell-shaped lock pin recorded in Crummy, N. 1981. Colchester Archaeological report 2. Pp. 124-5. No. 4143. A broad date range of AD 43 to 410 is given for these objects due to their long period of use.
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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