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BRACELET
Unique ID: HAMP-409682
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A fragment of Roman copper-alloy strip (multiple motif) bracelet or armlet, dating to the 3rd and 4th centuries. The fragment consists of a curving section 23.9mm in length with old breaks to either end and an elongated D-shape in cross-section. The reverse is undecorated while the front is decorated with three panels divided by two prominent transverse ridges, the immediate area on either side slightly concave. Both incomplete end panels are undecorated as far as can be distinguished. The central panel has a side-projecting triangle to one end decorated at its centre with three punched annular rings, the two centremost edges of the triangle flanked by conjoined circular punch marks. The only decoration beyond this is a single punched annulet in the two corners beyond.
The object measures 23.9mm in surviving length, 7.3mm in width, 2.0mm in thickness and 1.99g in weight. Much of the original patina has a white-coloured rough covering, although the reverse is shiny and smooth to touch.
Notes:
This is an incomplete copper-alloy armlet or bracelet of Roman date. It finds parallels with Crummy's multiple motif bracelets or armlets (Crummy, 1983: nos. 1724-1732) and is of late Roman date, c.3rd-4th centuries AD.
Class: strip (multiple motif)
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 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 23.9 mm
Width: 7.3 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 1.99 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 3rd February 2015 - Tuesday 5th May 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Hampshire Cultural Trust Entry Form WINCM 52
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
Parish or ward: Wherwell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU3839
Four figure Latitude: 51.14900542
Four figure longitude: -1.45810661
1:25K map: SU3839
1:10K map: SU33NE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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