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BRACELET
Unique ID: NARC172
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
Wide strip bracelet terminal engraved with transverse and axial parallel lines infilled with herringbone motif. The strip is bent double lengthways.
At 23mm wide, this bracelet falls into Crummy's wide strip or armilla type (Crummy 2005). It was included in Crummy 2005 as an example of her Group C, with three symmetrically placed bands of decoration (Crummy 2005, 99, 104; no. 50).
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Class:
wide
Sub class: Crummy group
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: AD 43
Date to: AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.78 mm
Width: 23.03 mm
Weight: 12.08 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st October 1999 - Monday 1st November 1999
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Decoration method: Engraved
Decoration style: Geometric
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: East Northamptonshire (District)
To be known as: NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WOODFORD
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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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