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Description: | Copper alloy seal box. Rhomboid box together with its hinged lid, the box and lid having sides of equal depth [2.8mm] which meet as a butted joint when the box is closed (which is how it was presented). The bae of the box has paired lugs at one end, with a copper alloy rivet of length 3.6mm and diameter 1.5mm passing through one lug and presumably resting in a socket on the inhner face of the other. The rivet passes through a single lug projecting from the lid. Both lid and box bear a small rounded knop at the opposite end to the hinge. The base of the box has four round holes arranged in a rhomboid pattern, apparently drilled and of diameter 2.7mm. The top of the lid bears overall decoration comprising twenty five rhomboid cells of which a series forming a centred saltire appear to retain traces of enamel of a dull orange the central cell appears paler though of an indeterminate tint, in this respect similar to the rhomboid arrangements of four cells which lie between the arms of the putative saltire. The box now fails to close snugly, though its mechanism has not been meddled with by this reporter Suggested date: Early Roman, 100-200.Length: 29.5mm, Width: 18.1mm, Thickness (overall and as presented): 7.5mm, Weight: 5.04gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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