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Description: | A cast copper alloy probable strap fitting of late Iron Age or Early Roman date. The fitting is probably a strap loop or strap slide. It is formed from a wide rectangular loop from one side of which projects a boss and petal shaped decorative element. The front of the loop is decorated with a line along each long edge, possible filled with degraded enamel, or maybe just displaying differential corrosion. There may also have been enamel in the groove round the boss. The reverse of the boss is hollow.The design of this object differs from other strap loops and strap slides. Normally, the object consists of a decorative plate which has a rectangular loop projecting from the back. In this example, the loop is the main element and it is thus the full width of the object. This raises the possibility that it had a different function, perhaps as the mount from the mouth of a knife scabbard.The metal has a light green patina, and much of the original surface is missing. Other objects with this well known boss and petal style are YORYM-B3DD45, WMID-550E46 and DENO-39CF55 among many others on the database, but there does not seem to be another object of this precise design.
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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