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Description: | A cast, copper alloy, strap slide of Roman date, AD 100 - 300. It is in the form of a circular disc with an integrally cast, rectangular loop on the reverse. The front of the disc is decorated with a moulded design of a square surrounding an annulet. Each corner of the square carries a single, diagonal groove. On each side of the square are a pair of sub-triangular mouldings, with convex sides, which meet at their narrowest angles leaving a V shaped space between them and the outer edge of the disc. There are traces of blue enamel in some of the triangles and in the ring of the annulet; any enamel once present in the centre of the annulet has now disappeared leaving only a circular depression. The slide has a rough, dark green patina. It is 22.2mm in diameter and 9.4mm thick. It weighs 9.94gm.A strap fitting of this type is illustrated in Butterworth, Cool and Philo, 1998, Roman Castleford, Excavations 1974 - 85, volume 1, page 82, number 348. Other examples are recorded on the database: see for example records WILT-D1CBD2, PUBLIC-D900D6 and YORYM-530C95.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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