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Description: | A very unusual incomplete strap fitting. It has a circular suspension loop, set at 90 degrees to the plane of the fitting, on the front face the base of this loop has a transverse ridge. Below this there is a triangular shaped panel, which has a protruding triangle in its centre with three transverse grooves at its top and traces of three more at its base. Either side of this protruding triangle there is a longdituinal groove with four punched circles over lying it, there is also a band of diagonal incisions at the base of the triangular panel. Beneath the triangular panel the object then flares outwards, almost at right angles, into what appear to be two opposing curving birds heads, each of which has a ring and dot eye and transverse ridges along its neck. The tips of these birds heads are missing due to old breaks. Inbetween them there is a central tapering protrusion which is also incomplete due to an old break. The back face is flat and undecorated. It seems most likely that this strap fitting is a late Roman belt strap end, similar in style to the amphorae type strap ends. However no parallel could be found with one central suspension loop, although examples do exist with two. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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