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Description: | Possible Late Roman unusual amphora-shaped strap-end, or unidentified object. Consisting of a flat-sectioned plate (now triangular) with a straight, original edge uppermost, and a single circular piercing (probably a rivet hole) at the point of the triangle, after which the plate begins to expand shortly before a transverse break (at the neck, if a strap-end). To either side of the plate there are projections forming a triangular aperture above an oval or circular aperture or loop, all of which are broken. The more complete loop or projection terminates in, or is broken accross, a possible bird-head with a dot for an eye, but the corroded break makes this uncertain.The plate has carelessly incised decoration on both faces - three intersecting lines with a transverse line above and below on one face, and on the other at least two faint transverse and one vertical line which have been overstamped with three lines of ring-and-dots, one along either edge of the plate and one down the centre, all of which has been over-engraved with one deep vertical groove and three deep transverse grooves.Surviving length 18mm. Width (reconstucted) 30mm. Thickness 1mm. Probably 4th - early 5th century.
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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