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Description: | A Late Roman copper-alloy strap-end.The uppermost element of the flat-sectioned strap-end is a socket whose straight sides converge towards its bottom end. The now-missing strap would have fitted into the central gap between the two plates that occupy the upper half of this portion; it would have been held in place by an iron rivet, corrosion from which surrounds the two opposing perforations located immediately below the centre points of the top and bottom plates. On the upper surface, a band of three transverse grooves marks the base of the tapering socket; below this, two pointed knops project outwards from the right- and left-hand sides respectively. The leaf-shaped body of the strap-end, damaged at the base, is decorated by a cruciform arrangement of ring-and-dot punchmarks.Length: 36.4mm; width: 9.1mm; thickness: 3mm. Weight: 2.61g.It is likely that this is a damaged example of a nail-cleaner strap-end, a category of artefact discussed by Eckardt and Crummy (2006). No exact parallel could be found for this piece which is probably a debased example that fits best within Eckardt and Crummy's 'Other' category (ibid. 88). Having said this, the cross comprised of ring-and-dot punchmarks is parallelled by no. 707 in the 'Crescent-shaped lugs' category of the aforementioned classification (ibid. Fig. 3). The majority of dated examples of nail-cleaner strap-ends are from late 4th to early 5th century contexts (ibid. 90).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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