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Beaded Rims on Silver Plate Vessels in Late Roman Britain and Beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2022

Richard Hobbs  and
Laura Perucchetti
Richard Hobbs
Affiliation:
Britain, Europe & Prehistory, The British Museum [email protected]
Laura Perucchetti
Affiliation:
Department of Scientific Research, The British Museum [email protected]
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Abstract

Beaded rims are a characteristic feature of late Roman silver plate vessels, many of which have been found in British treasures including Mildenhall and Traprain Law. This paper discusses how these beaded rims provide insights into the production of silver plate, adding to what little is known of silver plate workshops. Vessels in the Mildenhall treasure provide a case study, after which measurements from beaded rims on other treasures from Roman Britain and the western Roman Empire are compared and discussed.

Keywords

silver platevesselsworkshopsLate Antiquity
Type
Shorter Contributions
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Britannia , Volume 53 , November 2022 , pp. 385 - 401
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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Footnotes

This paper is based upon a presentation given at the Centre for Baltic Studies in Schleswig, Germany, on 8 December 2017 as part of the ‘Silver, Status and Society’ AHRC Subject Area Specialist Network workshop.

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