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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy amphora shaped military strap end of late Roman date. It is missing the attachment end due to old breaks. The object is flat, leaf-shaped in form, tapering to the base where it has a bifuricated tip. At the top it narrows towards a neck and attachment end that is now missing due to old breaks, its precise form now uncertain. The front face of the object has the remains of decoration comprising a border of punched dots and a possible central vertical line of punched dots running from the bifuricated tip, but the precise nature of any decoration on this or the opposing face is uncertain due to post-depositional corrosion and wear. This strap end measures 32.65mm in length, 16.01mm in width, 1.82mm in thickness, and weighs 4.39g.This is probably a Roman strap end associated with Roman military Dominate belt-furniture of the 4th century AD (see Bishop and Coulston, 1993: 175, fig. 126 nos. 7, 12), although the bifuricated tip might suggest an association with objects such as nail cleaners. Several more complete examples have also been recorded on the PAS database from Suffolk (for example SF-45FCC4 and SF-2A8A84). The current example dates to the late Roman period, c.300-410 AD.
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