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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Late Iron Age/ Early Roman Strap Union of Taylor and Brailsford's Type 4 (miscellaneous), similar to their example no.46 from Caythorpe, Lincolnshire. One strap bar is missing while the other is damaged. It measures 41.76mm in length, is max.23.79mm in width, 7.95mm in max.thickness and weighs 12.71g.In form, the strap union has a central openwork circle and a Y-shaped projection on opposing sides with a globular knop (c.7mm in diameter) at the end of each arm. One arm is damaged and the knop and part of the arm is missing. At the intact arm, a piece of wire 1.35mm in diameter joins the two knops (although it is bent out of kilter to one side). This is missing completely from the other, damaged Y-shaped projection.The circle has a cross at its centre, widest in the middle and narrowing along the arms. The circle is 2.35mm wide and 4.59mm thick. The Y-shaped projections are widest where their arms join (c.4.08mm) and narrow along their length to 1.67mm wide just before the globular knops. They are 5.52mm in thickness.Viewed in profile, the strap union gently curves outwards. The reverse of the object is flatter but not significantly so - there is some working around the Y-shaped projections and the openwork cross to the front side to define the arms there.
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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