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Description: | Complete cast copper alloy strap-slide of Early Early-Medieval date (AD 400 - AD 500). Length 33mm, width 16.5mm and 11mm thick. Weight 14.34g.(the weight includes some soil within the mount).The strap-slide is D-shaped in cross-section. It is convex at the front and the edges slope gently and evenly inwards towards the reverse face. The reverse is flat. One end of the tube is straight and at right angles to the edges. At the other end of the tube, the reverse part is also straight, however, the front part of the tube is pointed. Decoration at front part of the mount takes the form of four transverse bands each consisting of three ribs. There is a band at each end and two together at the centre. Each of the central ribs has repetitive punched decoration. The form of this decoration is uncertain due to corrosion. However, these decorative elements may have been pellets. The two plain zones between the bands are slightly bulbous. The surfaces of this piece are superficially corroded and small areas of a dark green patina survive.Strap-slides have been associated with the fifth century quoit brooch school (pers comm B. Ager, British Museum). Similar objects are in the Anglo-Saxon Collections at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. It has been suggested by MacGregor and Bolick that a number of these mounts formed a sleeve around a rope of organic material to form a necklace or girdle (MacGregor & Bolick, 1993, 164).
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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