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STRAP END
Unique ID: SF-D14C15
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy strap end dating to circa AD 350-410. The strap end is likely amphora-shaped but only the lower half survives. At one end is a trefoil terminal. Emerging from the terminal is the broadly obal plate with rounded edges. Its front face is decorated with a large central ring and dot. It is durrounded by four smaller ring and dot motifs. The lower ring and dot motif has two further rting and dots underneath it forming a broadly straight line leading into the terminal. The top of the plate is broken at would have probably been the amphora handles. The reverse face is plain.
Amphora-shaped strap ends are noted to be associated with military communities on the frontiers in the late fourth century AD (Chadwick 2005: 125). Similar examples are recorded on the database including OXON-5B7F53; NLM-8B46D9; PUBLIC-0768F2; NMS-2E3759; SF-7C25C9 and SF-E2D2B3. A complete example is recorded under HAMP-8DBEEC.
Length: 33.1mm; Width: 20mm; Thickness: 1.8; Weight: 4.21g.
Class: Amphora
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 350
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33.1 mm
Width: 20 mm
Thickness: 1.8 mm
Weight: 4.21 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 2021 - Thursday 9th September 2021
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: Wickham Skeith
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chapman, E.M. | 2005 | A Catalogue of Roman Military Equipment in the National Museum of Wales | British Archaeological Reports 388 |
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