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Description: | The Iron Age strap fitting is a rectangular shape in plan. It is 55.4mm long and 30.3mm wide. The upper surface is decorated with a high relief design within a wide border. Within the border the high-relief design consists of two peltas with their apexs joining. Either side of these is a crescent, with the concanve edge facing the peltas. Both the peltas and crescents have a fine groove as a border towards their edges. At each terminal of the narrow edges, within the border there is a triangular platform whose tip touches the convex edge of the crescents. In the seven of the ten fields around these high-relief shapes there are traces of red enamel. The surface of the fields with no traces of enamel have irregular feint ribbing. On the high-relief areas there appears to be possibly silvering or tinning on the surface, but this may be the patina of the alloy. The silvering or tinning is not visible on the low-relief areas, but this does not have a well developed patina either. However the grey slightly shiny surface is visible on the reverse of the mount. The reverse of the strap fitting has traces of four projections, forming a rectangular shape in plan. These projections are damaged and incomplete. The damage is not recent. The only recent damage visible is on one edge of the fitting where a scrape has occurred. The surface of the strap fitting is pitted and has a traces of the original surface. The decoration and style of the fitting suggests it is a late Iron Age date.
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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