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BRACELET
Unique ID: LEIC-E838FB
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy bracelet fragment, Length: 35 mm, width: 17 mm, thickness: 1 mm, weight: 3.85 g.
The fragment is rectangular in cross section and form and is decorated on one side with two rows of rope like decoration running down the centre. There is one complete long edge which has an incised line forming a slight lip.
It is similar to LON-43EA71 and SF-528BC5; these are often described as a wide cuff, wide strip or armilla type. This example is of Crummy's Group A, with two bands of decoration (Crummy 2005).
Class:
wide
Sub class: Crummy group A
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35 mm
Width: 17 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 3.85 g
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: South Cambridgeshire (District)
Parish or ward: Knapwell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL3360
Four figure Latitude: 52.22215748
Four figure longitude: -0.05438244
1:25K map: TL3360
1:10K map: TL36SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 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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