Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Roman bone scabbard box chape

Front element of a bone box chape plate. The fragment is trapezoidal in shape and slightly convex. It is decorated by three raised ribs with open pelta-like ornaments between. The upper end is notched and lower edge bevelled. Back plate is 32.60/8.6.

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

32.60/8.2

Find Information

Site Name: Prysg Field, Caerleon

Grid Reference: ST3391
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1927-1929

Notes: RBa(2)S

Acquisition

donation, 6/2/1932

Measurements

length / mm:62
width / mm:54
thickness / mm:13

Material

Bone

Location

in collections

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