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Description: | A copper-alloy incomplete possible strap fitting most likely to be Roman in date. This object is rectangular in shape with an incomplete integral loop projecting at right angles from either end. It measures 38mm in length and 9mm in width.
The rectangular plate has a flat back face and a rounded front face, it is 3mm in thickness. The front face is divided into three longitudinal cells, the central one being slightly wider than the other two. Each cell probably originally held enamel, traces of this can now be seen in the central one, where there is a fragment of blue enamel at either end and the larger fragment has a circular indentation in it implying that some other decoration, perhaps a gem or different coloured enamel, was originally set into it. There are also smaller traces in the corners of the other two cells of a now blackish enamel although this may not have been its original colour.
The integral loops projecting from either end of the plate at right angles are both incomplete due to old breaks, they are oval in shape with a drilled circular hole through their centres. The presence of these loops leads to the suggestion that this object functioned as a strap fitting of some kind, perhaps as a strap junction or union. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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