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Roman armour or 'lorica squamata' scale
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All rights reserved, Philippa Walton, 2015-08-14 12:07:58
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Roman armour or 'lorica squamata' scale
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English: A fragment of copper-alloy scale armour known as 'lorica squamata' dating to the second or third century AD. The fragment is tongue shaped with two circular perforations, one set with a link between them, along each edge, and four circular perforations at the straight end. The scale armour fragment has a length of 36mm, a width of 19mm and a thickness of less than 1mm. The scale armour fragment weighs 1.3 grams. This scale is of von Groller's Type VIII.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Darlington
Date ROMAN
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FindIdentifier: 736568
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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/528963
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/528963/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/736568
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Object location54° 32′ 41.64″ N, 1° 41′ 19.28″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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