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Description: | Incomplete Roman strap fastener. A loop with sub-triangular or trefoil aperture above a transverse rib on both faces. Below this a triangular section bar extends to a break. On two narrower faces part of an engraved inscription, to be read with loop to the left V T [ above F ] Only the first half of the T is present. the second letter on the second line begins with a vertical stroke. The complete text was probably VTERE FELIX (meaning literally ?use happy? i.e. ?good luck to the user?). Tinned or silvered. Length >25mm. Width at loop 12mm, at bar 8mm. | 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
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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