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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy amphora-shaped military strap-end, upper end missing, broken above flanking peltate or 'kidney-shaped' handles with flanking projections above and below, which represent the crescents that usually replace handles on narrow British-made amphora types. The body is decorated on one face with a vertical median line of multiple c-shaped stamps, the other face is decorated with a fine vertical median line of incised rocker-arm that bisects three chevrons formed by flanking pairs of fine oblique rocker-arm lines. Width 19.5. Length greater than 55mm. Thickness 3mm. Cf. Appels and Laycock (2007), p. 259, fig.SL13.37. Late 4th-century or later.
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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