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Description: | One end of a late Roman copper alloy strip bracelet. The piece has one complete, slightly tapered terminal with a squared end and a break at the other end. It is curved in profile but less than one would expect froma bracelet suggesting it has bent out of shape. The bracelet is narrow and D-shaped in section with a flat back along most of the remaining length with some faceted trapezoid shaped sections with wider back, acgled sides and flat front. It is devided into a series of sections by decoration.At the terminal is a very short plain section (c.1mm long) then a section decorated with regularly spaced, deeply indented diagonal grooves. This section ends in a pair of transverse raised collars flanked by narrow transverse grooves and with a wider transverse groove between them. After this comes the first trapezoid section. The angled sides are each decorated with a row of six ring patterns, raised rings within a recessed area with a recessed centre. The flat front of this section is decorated with a pair of incisced lines runnign along it and multiple, closely spaced transverse incised lines running across it. After this section is a section with raised collars and beads. This section starts with raised circular bead then a pair of collars then a wide transverse groove then another pair, then a second bead. Each is collar and bead is divided by a narrow transverse indented groove. After the bead and collar section is a second trapezoid section decorated in the same way as the first even to the number of rings. Then there is the start of a second beaded section just before the break, the remaining part of this section has a collar, bead then a pair of collars.The section is 68.8mm long, 5.6mm wide, 2.5mm thik and weighs 5.88 grams.Crummy (1983, 45-6) refers to this as a the multiple motif group and includes an example, no.1730, with similar trapezoid sections with the same decoration as this example, also separated with bead and collar sections but with straight rather than angled grooves on the terminal section. That example is from a context dated c.320-450 AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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