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Description: | Three small copper-alloy strap loops still attached to a small copper-alloy ring. Each strap loop is made from a piece of circular-section bronze rod, bent into a loop, with the ends flattened and pierced to take two iron rivets each. There is a tiny split at the junction of one flattened end with its loop and this may show that the ends were made by folding a longer flattened part in half. The two best-preserved loops are each 7 mm wide and 17 mm long; the other is slightly bent out of shape, 8 mm wide and 18 mm long. The diameter of the rod used is nearly 2 mm and the flattened ends are 3 mm wide. The ring is made from copper alloy of a slightly different colour. It is 11 mm in external diameter and is worn internally at perhaps five different places. There is no decoration on either the strap loops or the ring. Strap loops are known from early Anglo-Saxon women's graves of the 7th and early 8th century. They were used on the belt or on a chain called a chatelaine, which hung from the belt and held tools and amulets. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 600
720 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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