Record Details
| NHER Number: | 39948 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman bracelet |
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Summary
A fragment of a Roman bracelet, made of copper alloy, found by a metal detectorist.
Images - none
Location
Full description
Before 25 September 2003. Metal detecting.
Isolated in area without other metal finds.
Roman fragment of copper alloy bracelet, see (S1), width 8.25mm. One end broken, wide zig zag groove flanked by lines of punched dots, then transverse row of three small of ring and dots. After this a straight end which must be secondary. It is chamfered and marked by eight punched impressions. Bracelets of this type have either hook and eye or narrow rounded butt terminals. Late 4th century or later.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 12 November 2003.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- BRACELET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Clark, G.. 1980. Pre-Roman and Roman Winchester: The Roman cemetery at Lankhills.. Winchester Studies 3. Type E. |
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