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Description: | A cast copper-alloy belt or strap fitting of possible Late Roman to Early Anglo-Saxon date. It is formed from a single, thick rectangular sheet of copper alloy with rounded ends that is folded so that the ends meet at the attachment end of the object. The two ends are held together by a large cylindrical copper-alloy rivet that has flattened circular heads. This produces a curved, almost U-shaped profile with an oval shaped aperture through which a strap or belt fitting may have passed. On the exterior surface of the curved face there is incised decoration formed from double grooves to either side that extend approximately one third of the way down each side of the object. It measures 19.75mm in length, 12.96mm in width, 1.28mm in thickness (7.65mm in maximum thickness at folded end), and weighs 5.33g.This is a strap or belt fitting of uncertain function. Similar examples are noted on the PAS database (for example NARC-6C8132 and in terms of decoration NMS-07E7A1) and are dated to the Roman or Early-Medieval periods. The findspot of the current object combined with its form and decoration might indicate a date range in the later Roman through to early Anglo-Saxon periods, perhaps c.200-720 AD.
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