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Description: | Copper-alloy strap loop. It consists of a long piece of copper alloy bent in half, with the centre expanded into a loop. One end (the reverse) is narrower, only 7 mm wide, with carelessly wavy edges; it ends in a broken rivet hole. As this approaches the bend it curves outwards a little and becomes U-shaped in cross-section; then at the centre of the bend, the cross-section is D-shaped. It flares as it comes around to the front, to 10.5 mm wide, and again becomes U-shaped in cross-section. It then curves sharply down to a wide flat rectangular plate, 15 x 20 mm, which forms the other end. This plate is decorated with two wide transverse grooves below a single narrow transverse groove; although the edges are fragmentary and hard to see, there is a pair of edge nicks between the wide grooves. This wider end has no surviving rivet holes. A reasonably close parallel can be found at Colchester (Crummy 1983) no. 4199; this is interpreted as for joining divergent leather straps from cavalry harness.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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