Object with two snakes

[woody50]

A Roman Coiled Snake Bracelet (goud plated bronze)

Name A Roman Coiled Snake Bracelet
Type
Datering Roman?
Material Bronze with gold plating
Mass gram 11.57
Measurement mm Ø(whl) w=26 l=43.2

 

[Terry Soloman]

Looks like a sash or cape clip to my untrained eye.

 

[old digger]

Could be an earring?

 

[woody50]

Thanks Terry and old digger for your thoughts. Could be right.

I think very much that it must be Roman because a lot of our finds on the field were Celtic/Roman or early middle ages. Found in England.

 

[H-2 CHARLIE]

awasom find that would be thrilling to find . you guys with 1000 yr old history

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

The shape looks to be ear shaped so instead of hanging from earlobe possibly went around ear.

 

[woody50]

The shape looks to be ear shaped so instead of hanging from earlobe possibly went around ear.

Could be, did they do that back then? Could be lost very easy I think then.
But I think the object has been changed by the plow in the past, maybe it was more round?

 

[woody50]

awasom find that would be thrilling to find . you guys with 1000 yr old history

Yes those finds are always great. Its about 2000 years old.

I was walking down a dirt road on a field, what I though must be old, and finding a few coins. Just at the end of the road there was on the right side a sort of low long pile of dirt not so wide, something like if a small plow shoved it up. Heard a beep on the detector, looked down and there it was laying almost on the surface. Have found on the same field many many finds, all old (even back to the bronze time).

 

[woody50]

I have studied this object again today very carefully. I was surprized detect that instead of two snakes, discovered that there were 4!

I took a new photo and numbered the snakes (from the 4th snake is only a part of the tail over).

Snake 1 (red) is the largest snake and has a thick body.
Snake 2's (yellow) body is wrapped around the tail of snake 1.
Snake 3 (green) is located laying aside snake 1 but is pointing the other way.
Snake 4's (violet) body is missing, only part of the tail is still present.

Remarks
- The tail of the snake 4 is wound around the tail of the snake 3, just like snake 1 and 2.
- The body of snake 4 seems to have gone over the backs of snake 3 and snake 1 (long violet arrow).
- From inspection of the ends of snake 1 and 3 I have seen that both 'could' have been joined together in the past, or next to each other. Plow damage could have taken them apart. That also means that the object could have been orginally round, which is more likely.

This object is not so large, see photo.

So maybe now there are more answers to thing about.

 

[Silver Searcher]

A Roman Coiled Snake Bracelet, although usually made of Solid Gold. I don't have a problem with the size of it, as it was probably for a child....nice find Woody

SS

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

a torc?
perhaps a hair decoration if not a bracelet..

 

[DCMatt]

A Roman Coiled Snake Bracelet, although usually made of Solid Gold. I don't have a problem with the size of it, as it was probably for a child....nice find Woody

SS

I'm with SS. Child's bracelet. Roman boys often wore a necklace with protective amulets to keep away evil. The snake was a common symbol for immortality. So if you're superstious, why not put a snake bracelet on your boy as well. And we all know how boys are about losing things...

Great find.

DCMatt

 

[CRUSADER]

Thats actually very interesting. I've had a few Roman snake Rings & Bracelets bits. None as elaborate as that one, very cool piece.