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Description: | A copper-alloy strap divider dating from the late Iron Age. The divider consists of three loops, one of which is broken, another entirely missing, with a highly celticised human head in the centre. The head is quite crude, with a wedge shaped nose, circular punches for the eyes and straight vertical grooves representing the hair. The reverse of the object is flat, apart from a dish to the rear of the central face motif. The face measures 13.6 mm long and 12 mm wide. The remaining complete loop measures 16.5 mm in external diameter, and 11 mm in internal diameter. It is very similar to an example illustrated in Mills, Celtic and Roman Artefacts (2000, page 30; fig C48). Such strap dividers often have a stylised animal, usually a bull, in the centre (for example, see Murawski, Artefacts of England and the United Kingdom. 2000, page 98; fig I15-0307). Indeed, a further example of a strap divider was discovered in Northamptonshire with just such a central motif (see NARC-0739A4). Such strap dividers are thought to date to the late Iron Age, to the late 1st century BC or early 1st century AD. | 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: | -25
25 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tom Brindle | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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