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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy strap fitting or ?strap-slide? with enamelled decoration, dating from the 1st-3rd century AD (length: 20.5mm; width: 18.5mm; thickness/ depth: 13mm; weight: 5.85g). The ?strap-slide? has a square-headed and thin platform/ head with slightly irregular and uneven edges. The decoration on the front face of this platform consists of a central and circular pellet of yellow enamel (diameter: 2.5mm), surrounded by a circle of red enamel (outer diameter of circle: 8mm; width of enamel: 2mm), and another concentric circle of enamel (possibly green) just inside the outer perimeter of the square platform (outer diameter of circle: 17mm; width of enamel: approximately 2mm). There is a width of 4mm between the red enamelled circle and the outer possibly green circle. The underside of this platform is flat and undecorated. There is a large rectangular loop at the back of the artefact, where the strap would have originally passed through. This loop is undecorated and appears to have been separately attached on to the flat square and decorated platform. Overall, the artefact is in a worn but fair condition with a dark green patina. | 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
300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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