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Description: | A cast copper alloy bracelet or armlet of the later Roman period. The bracelet has a D-shaped cross section and is decorated with cast decoration on the outer surface only; the reverse is flat, plain and undecorated. The decoration is symmetrical from the middle out to each terminal; the central decorative panel is bounded on each side by a vertical line of recessed dots; within this is an area of scored cross hatching with a horizontal line of dots beneath. The decoration either side of this central panel is the same on both sides; a diagonal line of recessed dots with a linear border either side bound by a line of vertical recessed dots. The terminal end(s) has a flat, plain, slightly raised sub-square panel with vertical lines on either side. The terminals are slightly more narrow than the main band of the bracelet, however one terminal is not as narrow as the other. The finder suggested that this may be a child's bracelet due to its small sixe, however it may also be a cut down bracelet, cut down to respect the symmetery of the pattern, which may have repeated for a third or fourth time.Crummy (1983:46 fig 47) illustrates similar copper alloy armlets with repeating motifs, with example 1730 having a similar decorative style. These armlets usually had a hook and eye terminal so they could be secured around the arm / wrist; the example recorded here is likely to have been similar and therefore it does indeed seem likely that it has been cut down. The examples in Crummy are dated from c. AD 320-450.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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