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BRACELET
Unique ID: WILT-FDD857
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a Roman copper-alloy bracelet, probably dating to c. AD 350-450. The surviving portion comprises of one terminal, rectangular in plan and with a flat cross section. One end of the fragment is pinched and terminates in an old break, creating one tapering end, whilst the other end terminates in an incomplete sub-rectangular loop. The fragment is decorated by a pair of incised double-stranded collars defining a rectangular field and which contains a punched ring-and-dot motif.
Length: 17.27mm; thickness at folded end: 2.21mm; thickness at eye end: 0.83mm; width at eye: 5.57mm; width at folded end: 2.88mm.
cf.Crummy (1981:46), nos. 1724-1732.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 350
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 17.27 mm
Width: 5.57 mm
Thickness: 2.21 mm
Weight: 0.56 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 5536
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Bowerchalke (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU0223
Four figure Latitude: 51.00638245
Four figure longitude: -1.97286895
1:25K map: SU0223
1:10K map: SU02SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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