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Description: | A worn copper-alloy Roman, scabbard slide, which would have allowed the scabbard to slide along a strap. It measures 35mm in length and 10mm in width at its widest point. It has a rounded terminal knob and is then waisted and flares into tapering rectangular shaft, which has a worn incomplete projection at right angles to its front face immediately below the waisted part under the terminal knob. The shoulders of the shaft slope downwards and it tapers towards a heart shaped terminal end. There are traces of probable moulding on the front face but what was originally depicted is no longer clear.
This scabbard slide is similar to an example from Hadrian's Wall and is dated to the Antonine period, c138-161AD (Bishop and Coukston, 1993, 120, fig 80, no 13). | 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: | 138
161 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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