Rights Holder: Suffolk County Council
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Unique ID: SF-E9E75E
Object type certainty: Certain
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A fragment of a copper alloy Roman bracelet/armlet. It is strip-shaped, rectangular in cross-section with an abrupt break across each end. The outer face is decorated with several different motifs - at one end there is a section with several small nicks along each edge and a groove running longitudinally across the centre and at the other end are two sections divided by transverse grooves, each with an incised ring-and-dot in its centre. The fragment is very curved in profile. Despite the breaks the metal survives in good condition.
A bracelet with very similar decoration was found in excavations at Colchester (Crummy 1983, 46, fig.47, no.1725). Bracelets of this form date from the later 3rd to 4th century AD.
Length: 25.67mm, width: 6.72mm, thickness: 2.51mm, weight: 3.33g
Class: Strip, multiple-motif
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 250
Date to: Circa AD 402
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.67 mm
Width: 6.72 mm
Thickness: 2.51 mm
Weight: 3.33 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st October 2015
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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