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Description: | Cast copper-alloy strap slide dating from the Early Roman period, c. AD43-200. The strap slide is complete and undamaged with a nice, even patina and almost no surface damage. It displays a moulded boss-and-petal or teardrop decoration on the obverse whilst being plain on the reverse. On the back, however, it has a rectangular loop for attachment on a strap. The teardrop- or petal-and -boss decoration on the obverse is well known from button-and-loop fasteners of the same period (examples have been recorded under WILT-2f9063, SWYOR-B4D9F1, YORYM-AF1344, LANCUM-FEA2A1 and LANCUM-CF9125). This type of decoration characterises Wild's Class III button-and-loop fasteners.Button-and-loop fasteners as well as strap slides of this type have frequently been found on early Roman military sites in the North. A strikingly similar object was found at the fort at Newstead in Roxburghshire, Scotland (see Macgregor reference below). This is now National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in Edinburgh, Accession Number FRA 558.Macgregor, M. 1976. Early celtic Art in North Britain: A Study of Decorative Metalwork from the Third Century BC to the Third Century AD. Leicester University Press, Volume 2, Catalogue entry no 25. See also Curle, J. 1911. A Roman Frontier Post and its People: The Fort at Newstead, p. 302, Plate LXXV, 3.
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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