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STUD
Unique ID: SF9019
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
A Roman copper-alloy bell shaped stud dating to circa AD 43-410. It is a truncated cone, the larger face 30 mm in diameter and concave, with a decorative groove close to the edge. In the middle is a projection, also a truncated cone, with a ridge around it; the projection is quite short and ends in a flat perforated lug reminiscent of a button loop. The smaller face of the cone is about 12 mm in diameter; it appears to be hollow, and almost completely filled with a grey material which may be decayed solder. The cone is 10 mm thick but the perforated projection increases the total thickness to 14 mm. At first sight the object looks very like a Roman 'bell-shaped stud' (Allason-Jones 1985) - these objects often have iron attachment shanks fixed into the smaller face by lead solder. They have multiple uses, but no parallels to the perforated lug have yet been found.
Class:
Bell-shaped
Sub class: Type 1
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight: 26.79 g
Diameter: 30 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2002
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: WESTERFIELD
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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