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BRACELET
Unique ID: WILT-674702
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a cast copper alloy bracelet or small armlet dating to the Roman period. It is 28.80mm in length, 6.25mm in width but tapering to 5.70mm. It is D shape in section and 3.16mm thick but 2.09mm at the narrower end which may be one side of a lap joint, broken apart at an early dates. The other end is more clearly a break.
The surface of the bracelet is decorated with diagonal grooves. Crummy 1983 suggests that this grooving was probably meant to imitate in solid form the appearance of cable armlets (p41 ref fig44 no1693).
The fragment has a pale green patina and weighs 2.82g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
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
Length: 28.8 mm
Width: 6.25 mm
Weight: 2.82 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 5121
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: East Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Wimborne St. Giles (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU0118
Four figure Latitude: 50.96142355
Four figure longitude: -1.98713386
1:25K map: SU0118
1:10K map: SU01NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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