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Roman copper alloy harness stud, enamelled
Enamelled bronze harness-stud. 2nd century A.D.
Large elaborately enamelled stud. The enamel is contained within four concentric bands of metal. The outer circle is of a deep-blue with forty-three delicate springs of a pure white. The second circle of the enamel has a background of a bright red with thirty-nine squares of three by three white and blue chequerboard pattern; the ground of the third circle is blue and contains twenty-eight flowers with white petals around a white dot within a red circle. The central panel is filled by some forty-five distorted squares, alternating between three by three white and blue chequerboard pattern within a red frame, and five by five white and blue chequerboard pattern within a blue frame.
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Site Name: Usk, Monmouthshire
Notes: The entry in 'Isca Silurium' states that the object was "believed to have been found in Usk" Given to the Museum of Antiquities, Caerleon, by Mrs Digby Wyatt. Mrs Digby Wyatt is named on p55 of Isca Silurum (Lee, J. E., 1862) as daughter of the Late Mrs Nicholl. A Mr W.H. Nicholl is then noted as owning beads of note. Possible links (or otherwise) with Coxe's (1801: ii) William Nicholl esq. of Caerleon could be usefully researched. The name Nicholl does not feature in the Caerleon Tithe Apportionment. Amongst other plots in Usk, Illtyd Nicholl owned and occupied 110 and 111; House, garden lawn and meadow of the Usk Tithe Map and Appotionment, situated in New Market Street and bounded to the west by the River Usk.