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Description: | A worn and incomplete copper alloy disc strap fitting. It is circular in shape with an incomplete projection from one edge. The circular disc measures 21mm in diameter and is decorated on the front face with seven concentric grooved circles one of which has transverse lines along it. There is a cylindrical rivet which projects through the centre of the disc. Projecting from one edge is what appears to be an incomplete suspension loop, which would have been formed by bending the rectangular shaped strip of copper alloy backwards to form an open loop. The part of the loop which survives is decorated on its front face with transverse grooves. Similar strap fittings, called disc attachments have been discovered in Croxton, Norfolk and Croydon, Surrey and they are believed to be Roman date and date to the 4th or 5th century. | 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: | 300
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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