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Description: | A cast copper incomplete apron mount strap end, dating to the 1st century AD (length: 34.8mm; width: 12.3mm; thickness & weight: uncertain as the artefact is secured inside a box). At one end, the artefact has a globular rounded terminal with a ridge directly below before narrowing at the neck. Below the neck, the artefact expands outwards again with slanted by flat shoulders with two or three slight ridges at the top. The sides then begin to slant inwards and reach a rounded terminal at the other end. On the back of the artefact, there seems to be the remains of a hooked attachment/ fastening. Overall, the artefact is in a poor and corroded condition, with extensive areas of bronze disease near the rounded terminal at one end, as well as having a dark green patina. This artefact is illustrated as (viii) in the picture. A similar artefact is illustrated in Ralph Jackson?s ?Camerton: The Late Iron Age and early Roman Metalwork?, 1990, page 30 & plate 4, ref no 37. The mount was secured to the leather strap by a spike behind the upper panel (missing on our example) and a tongue-shaped flange behind the lower panel. | 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: | 43
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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