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Description: | A cast copper alloy strap fitting or belt/strap slide dating from the Late Iron Age into the early Roman period. The strap slide is complete and in good condition and is lozenge shaped in plan with an integrally cast rectangular loop on the reverse to fit a leather strap. The obverse of the fitting is decorated with two bilobed designs set close together to form a quartefoil petal design, each filled with blue enamel. The external field is filled with what is now a green-coloured enamel. A number of these brightly coloured strap fittings are recorded on this database although it is uncertain whether they were worn by humans or if they adorned horse harnesses, or possibly both.
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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