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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: DUR-F7D081
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast copper alloy Roman strap slide, dating from the 1st- 3rd centuries AD.
It is circular in plan and domed, being hollow on the reverse. Its edges are slightly broken but other than that it is complete. It is decorated on the front with a raised triskele motif which was cast integrally. In the centre and at the end of each arm there is a circular dot as extra decoration. The strap slide has a rectangular loop on the reverse to fix it onto the strap.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 13.57 mm
Height: 6.21 mm
Weight: 9.8 g
Diameter: 24.49 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st October 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Scarborough (District)
Parish or ward: Brompton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9481
Four figure Latitude: 54.216118
Four figure longitude: -0.559987
1:25K map: SE9481
1:10K map: SE98SW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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