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Description: | This is one element from a pair which formed an elaborate and decorative strap-fastening. It has a front and back, for one surface is ornamented and the other is plain. The object is 21mm tall, 18mm wide and 6.5mm thick. It was made to be attached to a strap 2.5mm thick and 21mm wide, and the casting contains a deep slot for its admission to a length of 10mm into the 18mm dimension. It was fastened in place by two dome-headed rivets (heads 4mm diameter, 2mm height, which pass through the outer two of five ornamental holes on the upper side running across the strap-slot. The edge of the mount on this side (the inner edge) is cut-out around the detail of six leaves springing around the rivet-holes, which are integral to the casting. The strap attachment area is defined by a slight ridge or moulding, with punched chevron work, rather irregular, between this and the line of holes. We now pass to the ingenious part of the fitting. It consists of a tube, open at one end and cast closed at the other, with a slot removed all down one side. Clearly the other part of the fastener, which is missing, had a rod or cylinder-formed outer edge, which would be inserted into this tube and so form a secure fastening. The outer side of this tube, which is cast-in to the whole, is decorated with notched geometric ornament. | Subjects: | slip rod fastener | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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