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Description: | Cast copper-alloy strap fitting or strap slide with rectangular aperture for a leather strap beneath a triangular mount incised with concentric circles. The surface is quite corroded but there is a squared-off fragment of cornelian or jasper in the centre of the inner circle. The central setting is surrounded by five corroded points which may have defined an area of enamelling or some other decoration, within the incised circle.Ralph Jackson has suggested that it is probably a Roman military strap fitting, and is likely to date from the 1st-2nd century AD.Crummy (1995) illustrates a similar example of a button-and-loop fastener, inlaid with champlevé enamel, with a rectangular projection at the back for attachment to a strap on page 164, Fig.201, No.4614, which is dated to the 1st century AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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