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Description: | Part of a copper alloy late Roman strap end. It is 35.1mm long, 16.7mm wide and 1.2mm thick. The artefact is perhaps best classified as an 'amphora-shaped' strap-end, as such dating to the fourth or fifth century AD (Geake 2001, 31). Only part of one plate of the strap end survives. It has a square attachment end through which is a central rivet, and would have had an amphora shaped body, but the pointed closed end of this is missing. There would also have been an openwork loop on each side of the square attachment plate, but these are missing. The breaks are not recent. The neck of the strap end is decorated with two pairs of transverse lines, and the body with ring and dot motifs.
A similar strap-end is described by Clarke (1979, 281; ref. 128) as a prototype of the 'Tortworth' type. Further examples can be seen in the study by Bishop and Coulston (1993, 175, fig 126, no 7). These types are associated with fourth century Dominate belt-furniture. Although not common in Britain (from stratified contexts), examples are known such as one from the Winchester Lankhills cemetery, for instance. They belong to the type of belt with 'propeller' stiffeners similar to a complete set from Zengovarkarhony. They seem to have been worn with the tongue of the buckle facing the wearer's right hip, which meant the strap terminal ended up dangling on the left hip, after being wrapped around the belt a few times. Similar examples on the database are NARC-DF98F1 and SF-C62B57. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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