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Description: | A copper-alloy fastening, most likely ot be Roman in date. It has a central solid rectangular part, 3.2mm in width and thickness and 10.4mm in length and a pierced flat oval terminal at either end, 6.4mm in width, the whole fasteneing measures 22.3mm in total length.
The rectangular part is decorated on all four faces with S-shaped grooves. The oval terminals are not on the same plane, one is set at right angles to the other. The central circular holes are 1.7mm in diameter.
Although no exact parallel could be found for this fastening its style and form are similar to a type of fastening discovered at Lakenheath, Suffolk, see SF9593, and this is identical to one illustrated in Crummy (1983, p110, Fig 113, No. 2950). Both of these examples have a decorated rectangular part with a flat oval pierced terminal at one end but at the other a S-shaped hooked temrinal. The Colchester example was found in a grave and used as part of a hook and eye fastener for a copper-alloy chain of S-shaped links, this chain was attached to a penannular ring which was attached to the terminal suspension loop of the handle of an iron knife. It seems probable that this Elveden example could have been used as a fastener too with an S-shaped chain link possibly passing through either pierced terminal end. | 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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