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Roman leather offcut
Large waste-cutting from the edge of goat-hides, from which oval panels have been neatly excised; curvature indicates a panel little more than 600mm across. Twisted tags to the roughly flayed hide-edge, and a punctured hole may be connected to the tanning process.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
84.43H/9.2
Find Information
Site Name: Museum Garden, Caerleon
Grid Reference: ST 33 91
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1983 - 1984
Notes: from Well I
Acquisition
Collected officially, 26/4/1984
Measurements
thickness / mm:1
length / mm:131
Material
leather
Location
Caerleon: Case 12 Tools and Industry
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