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Description: | A copper-alloy sheet plate from a late Roman heart-shaped strap-end. The main body of the plate takes the form of an inverted heart. This flares out to a butt at what would normally be the pointed end. There is a triangular nick at each short end of the butt, with further such nicks all along the long end. There is a circular perforation at the butt end, made from the lower surface upwards. The upper surface features rocker-arm incised decoration round the edge of the heart and also longitudinally up its centre. On the lower surface the lower half of the heart bears an off-white accretion, presumably the remains of an adhesive. The upper surface now has an even dark-green patina. Two heart-shaped strap-ends were found at the Lankhills cemetery, Winchester (Clarke 1979, 280ff.; refs. 534, 75). One (534) is of similar form to this example, while the other (75) bears rocker-arm decoration. Both are dated to around the second half of the 4th century AD. | Subjects: | heart-shaped | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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