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Description: | A copper alloy strap mount of probable Roman date. It has a rectangular plate with three moulded transverse ribs separated by two deeply incised grooves. The back face of the plate is hollow and has a prominent lip or ridge around the exterior surfaces, as well as raised casting ridges. There is an integral cyrlindrical rivet at the centre of the back face that terminates in a flattened disc shaped rove. The mount measures 18.65mm in length, 15.68mm in width, 11.61mm in thickness including the rivet, and weighs 6.35g. A similar mount of Roman date is recorded by Oldenstein (Oldenstein, 1976: no. 588) with a comparable example from Norfolk also recorded on the PAS database (NMS-413688). These suggest that the mount dates to the Roman rather than later periods, and probably from the 2nd or 3rd century AD.
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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