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Description: | Unusual Roman copper alloy furniture fitting: elaborate stud resermbling a chess pawn sitting on a discoidal base with twin radial grooves, containing the corroded remains of inserted rectangular-sectioned iron shank (8mm x 5mm). Length 42mm (excluding iron shank). Diam. 21mm. Related to the more usual 'bell-shaped' mounts, see Allason-Jones and Miket 1984, 239-45. 1st - 4th century.
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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