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Roman cosmetic grinder or pendant made from a broken snake-form bracelet
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Julian Watters, 2006-05-02 13:13:27
Title
Roman cosmetic grinder or pendant made from a broken snake-form bracelet
Description
English: A fragment of a Roman copper-alloy snake-form bracelet (C. Johns; 1996; pp. 109-11), which appears to have been converted into a cosmetic grinder or a pendant.

The piece measures up to 10.1mm wide at the head and tapers to a point at the nose. It also tapers into the hoop of the bracelet, measuring just 2.5mm wide at the point where it is broken. This end has been deliberately bent back on itself to form a loop handle; this has not been joined to the body, but the broken point has been deliberately flattened. Moulded decoration depicting snake skin can be seen on the heavily worn underside and consists of a central depression running the length of the object.

Overall, the piece measures 42.7mm long by 2.9mm thick and weighs 7.95g. No parallel could be found for this object, but it is not uncommon for Roman jewellery to be converted into alternative objects (see BH-C81C35 and BH-5F1A01).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hertfordshire
Date between 1 and 250
Accession number
FindID: 131212
Old ref: BH-744804
Filename: Roman bracelet 06 27 - 3.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/100466
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/100466/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/131212
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