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BRACELET

Unique ID: HAMP-B2E963

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

An incomplete late Roman copper-alloy bracelet of "cogwheel" type. The fragment is 39mm in length and has a flat rectangular cross section, 3mm wide by 2mm thick. The bracelet when complete would have had an internal diameter of around 40mm. The outer edge is decorated with bands of four or five incised transverse grooves separating low rectangular crenelations. Circa late 3rd-4th century AD.

Notes:

For similar see Crummy (1983), p40-41, fig 43, no 1659 and Leahy and Lewis (2018), p261. Examples on the database include SF-8D91A3.

Class: Cogwheel

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 250
Date to: Circa AD 410

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 39 mm
Width: 3 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 1.61 g
Diameter: 45 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 25th August 2018

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

Region: South East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Cherwell (District)
Parish or ward: Middle Aston (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SP4726
Four figure Latitude: 51.93053645
Four figure longitude: -1.3178549
1:25K map: SP4726
1:10K map: SP42NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Crummy, N.	1983	Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester, 1971-9	Colchester	Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd
Leahy, K., and Lewis, M.	2018	The British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Identified	Essex	Greenlight Publishing.

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Recording Institution: HAMP
Created: 3 years ago
Updated: 3 years ago

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