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Description: | Copper alloy seal box lid. Cast oval or teardrop-shaped lid with a terminal knop at its narrower end and a projecting U-shaped lug with drilled hole of diameter 2.5mm on a stalk at the wider end. A flange runs round the underside to engage with the box [lost]. The top has a border and a field apt to receive enamel, though only pale [probably stained] green traces of colorant remain. A reserved rhomboid intrudes into the field from the wider end of the lid, and is aligned with a longitudinal rib subdividing a central heart-shaped cell into equal halves. Though the rib is not continuous, its alignment is picked up a a stalk projecting from the pointed end of the heart-shaped cell. Suggested date: Roman, 100-300.Length: 44.2mm, Width: 18.2mm, Thickness (clear of flange): 1.1mm, Weight: 5.98gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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