shackle
- Museum number
- 1934,1210.88
- Description
-
Iron shackles consisting of two semicircular bands joined by interlocking loops. Each band has an eye on its outer edge with a link through it, intended no doubt to receive the ends of chains, and an elongated, terminal loop, one of which is now partly squashed.
- Production date
- 1stC-2ndC
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 87 millimetres (circa)
- Curator's comments
- Manning 1985
This is an example of Type 4, differing from the norm only in having the side links, a feature which also appears in a similar shackle from Künzing (Saalburg-Jahrbuch 26 (1961) 139, Abb. 9, 1).
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1934,1210.88
