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Description: | An complete copper-alloy strap end in very good condition. This strap end has been cast in one and is rectangular in shape measuring 33mm in length and 27mm in width. Its attachment end is hollow and rectangular in plan, with rounded corners. This hollow end is 13mm in length, and has two parallel rivet holes near to the open edges. Above these there is a circumference moulding. Below these rivet holes it is decorated on both faces with a transverse row of three ring and dot motifs on one face and two on the other. Beneath these there is a horizontal row of three evenly spaced circular perforations, through both of the faces, each one measuring 4.9mm in diameter. The hollow attachment then ends and there is another circumference groove before the terminal end. The terminal consists of four evenly spaced flat rectangular vertical bars. They terminate in a horizontal rectangular bar with rounded terminals.
This strap end is unusual and no parallel from an excavated Roman context could be found. However, buckle plates of very similar style, with the three circular perforations and vertical bars have been found at Richborough, Kent (Hawkes and Dunning 1961, 56-57, fig 19). This strap end is therefore likely to be contemporary with the stylistically similar buckle plates found and is probably late Roman, that is fourth or fifth century in date, it is also probably a military, rather than a civilian strap end.
Similar examples are recorded on the PAS database from Swanton Abbott, Norfolk (NMS-84DE91), Outwell, Norfolk (NMS-80C432), Mutford, Suffolk (NMS-6381F4) and Elmswell, Suffolk (SF-690346). | 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
500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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