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Description: | A complete copper-alloy Roman strap mount. This strap mount is cast and consists of a T-shaped horizontal bar above a crescent shaped part. It measures 41mm in total length, the bar is 29mm in length and 6.4mm in width and the crescent shaped part measures 29.9mm in length and 26mm in width externally and 12.5mm in width and 10.5mm in length internally. The mount has a rounded front face and flat or even in some areas concave back face.
The bar is roughly rectangular in shape with a swollen middle and tapering terminals, each of which has two transverse grooves across its tip. The back face of the bar is concave and there is one complete integral cylindrical rivet at one end and the remains of another at the other end. The bar is joined to the crescent shape via a central short rectangular neck with a transverse groove at either end.
The crescent shape also has a rounded front face and a concave back face. The lower narrowing tips of the crescent shape meet and at this point there are transverse mouldings and a central droplet shaped knop projecting from the centre of the outer edge. Above this projecting knop on the back face there is the remains of another cylindrical integral rivet.
Although no exact parallel could be found for this mount its form and size is very similar to a pendant and mount from Germany (Oldenstein 1976, Tafel 45, no 450). Consistsing of a pendant suspension mount, which is a horizontal bar, with an attached crescent shaped pendant. It therefore seems that this mount, as it is of a similar style is most likely to be Roman in date too and was perhaps copying the form of an originally two part mount and pendant. | 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
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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