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SEAL BOX
Unique ID: WILT-5D79B8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy Roman seal box lid dating to the period AD 43-400. The lid is principally circular in shape with a triangular section extending from the circle to form the catch. At the top, there is a single loop that extends back and would have formed part of the hinge attaching the front of the seal box to the back. The edge of the lid has a small knop on either side (at about four and eight o'clock). There is also a small triangular shaped knop at the terminal of the triangular catch.
The lid is decorated with ten champlevee triangles filled alternately with red and white enamel (some remains) and a further triangle filled with white enamel on the triangular catch. The ten triangles surround an incised circle which has two circles of relief, one zigzag and the central one, plain. The plain circle is filled with white enamel.
The back of the lid is plain but there is a circle of white enamel in the centre indicating a hole through the central plain circle. Cf Read, B (2001) Metal Artefacts of Antiquity, plate 48 no 577.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.33 mm
Width: 21.4 mm
Thickness: 5.4 mm
Weight: 2.96 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: WHM 4276
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Enamel
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Longbridge Deverill
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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