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Description: | Fragment of a probable Roman copper-alloy bracelet. The object comprises a thin rectangular strip of copper-alloy decorated on the exterior with a row of ringed dot motifs. The object is broken at both ends. The item is now roughly the size of a finger ring, and it is possible that it was re-worked as such.Bracelets of the narrow strip type with circle and dot motifs can be narrowed down to AD 350 into the early 5th century (Swift, E. 2000 Regionality in Dress Accessories in the Late Roman West Monographies Instrumentum 11, Montagnac, p.118-9) and occur as reused as finger rings, for example Figure 1b from Swindon, Wiltshire (Swift, E. 2012 'Object Biography, Re-use and Recycling in the Late to Post Roman Transition Period and Beyond: Rings made from Romano-British Bracelets' Britannia Volume 43).
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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