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BRACELET
Unique ID: SF6783
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Copper alloy bracelet fragment, wide cuff type. About half survives, bent. The main body is decorated with six longitudinal panels separated by grooves; the two centre bands have angled groove hatching, and a row of punched dots in one of the flanking grooves. The outer bands are undecorated except at the junction with the terminal where there are single punched circles. The terminal, where the band has broadened slightly (from 14mm to 16mm), has three transverse decorated bands with punched circles in the middle one and straight lines in the outer ones. The simple punch elements, size and layout are very similar to a bracelet found in Combs, Suffolk.
This type of bracelet is also sometimes called the 'wide strip' type and has been identified with the Roman term 'armilla'. This example was included in Crummy 2005 as an example of her Group A, with two central bands of decoration (Crummy 2005, 99, 103; no. 39).
Notes:
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Class:
wide
Sub class: Crummy group A
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 1.2 mm
Weight: 7.8 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st August 2001
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Materials and construction
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crummy, N. | 2005 | From bracelets to battle-honours: military armillae from the Roman conquest of Britain | Montagnac | editions monique mergoil |
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