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Description: | A complete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy strap fitting or belt fitting (perhaps a strap-slide) of the Quoit Brooch 'School' (c. 410-c. 500).This object is made of sheet copper-alloy. It is rectangular in plan, hollow and 'D'-shaped in cross-section. A join is not visible. At the convex front it is decorated with horizontal and vertical grooves and ridges (ribbed). The object is corroded with traces of a green patina.Height: 40.80mm; width: 14.73mm; thickness: 6.86mm; maximum thickness of sheet: 1.68mm. Weight: 7.98g.Similar fittings have been recorded from the Isle of Wight. See Portable Antiquities Scheme finds: IOW-D23CA3; IOW-39F248 and IOW-6B9271.Strap-slides have been associated with the fifth century quoit brooch school (pers comm B. Ager, British Museum). Similar objects are in the Anglo-Saxon Collections at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. It has been suggested by MacGregor and Bolick that a number of these mounts formed a sleeve around a rope of organic material to form a necklace or girdle (MacGregor & Bolick: 1993, 164).MacGregor, A and Bolick, E. 1993. A summary catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon collections (non ferrous metals). Ashmolean Museum Oxford: British Archaeological Reports 230.
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