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STUD
Unique ID: SF-0B3C7E
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman stud/mount, dating to AD 100-300. It is sub-rectangular in plan, with rounded short sides and it is hemisferical in cross-section. The back face originally had two integral rivets; the one which suvives now bears a disc head. The front face is decorated with transverse bands alternate with thin ridges.
Cf with The Catalogue of small finds from South Shields Roman Fort, Jones-Miket , 1984, p. 239, no. 877.
Length: 30.42 mm
Width: 10.24 mm
Thickness: 1.56 mm
Thickness including rivet: 8.56 mm
Weight: 3.73 g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.42 mm
Width: 10.24 mm
Thickness: 8.56 mm
Weight: 3.73 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 6th September 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Finder's reference: T-T2, Lidgate 2017
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: Lidgate
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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