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BRACELET

Unique ID: SF-F21BEA

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A bent copper-alloy Roman late third or fourth century bracelet fragment.

This fragment is rectangular in shape. It has a flattened D-shaped section with a flat back and rounded front face. Both ends terminate in old breaks, now worn. The front face is decorated with the remains of four panels of three transverse grooves. The back face is undecorated.

This bracelet measures 28.50mm in length, 2.98mm in width, 1.17mm in thickness, 0.95g in weight.

It finds parallels in Crummy's transverse grooves bracelet group (Crummy, 1983, p.42, nos. 1676-1692) and is of late Roman date, c.3rd to 4th centuries AD.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 200
Date to: Circa AD 409

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 28.5 mm
Width: 2.98 mm
Thickness: 1.17 mm
Weight: 0.95 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st January 2014

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: Field A

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Essex (County)
District: Braintree (District)
To be known as: Steeple Bumpstead

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Created: 9 years ago
Updated: 9 years ago

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