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Description: | Late Iron Age/ Roman copper alloy strap fitting, similar to Wild's button and loop fasteners group I (Britannia 1970) and fitting with Minter's Suffolk grouping (Lucerna 28, 2004). A roughly circular in section loop 16.5mm in diameter is thicker to one side (extending diameter to 18mm) and making it externally slightly pointed here. Its internal dimensions are 8.5x7.5, and rather oval in shape (shorter across from side to thickened side). At the thickened side is a projection, or neck, 5-6mm thick and not quite circular in section. It is slightly off-centre, so there is a 1-2mm inward slope from the internal edge of the loop, but from the external 'point' it extends straight upwards - it is concave-sided where it faces inwards, to the loop, but externally it is quite straight. The neck is c.5mm long and ends in a roughly hemispherical knop, slightly higher and thicker at the outside edge. It is 8.5mm in diameter and 6mm high. The join of neck and knop is slightly off-centre, though the neck does not go quite up to or even beyond the circumference of the knop. Weighs 5.98g. In total, the object is 15.5mm high and the reverse of the loop (ie. the side opposite to that of the projecting neck) is slightly flattened. Where these objects have been found in dated contexts, they tend to be mid-1st century and possibly military. Although we are unclear exactly what function they have, they have an ideal function in fastening two ends of a strap. It has also been suggested they could be used in pairs for the attachment of a sword to a belt. | 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: | 100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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