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STRAP END
Unique ID: SUR-8561E6
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Published 
A Roman copper alloy strap end with a nail cleaner terminal. The strap end has a hipped body and a possible loop on the upper end but the forked terminal is missing. The strap end is decorated with bordering lines of punched dots and crescents. This is one of Crummy and Eckardt's nail-cleaner strap ends (Crummy and Eckardt 2006) and is similar to nos. 112 and 1136. Such strap ends have a largely southern distirbution and appear to be of lagter 4th century date.
Class: Nail-cleaner
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: 41.8 mm
Width: 10.39 mm
Weight: 3.82 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: B15-99
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
District: Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: White Waltham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU8577
Four figure Latitude: 51.48557401
Four figure longitude: -0.77723412
1:25K map: SU8577
1:10K map: SU87NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eckardt, H. and Crummy, N. | 2006 | Roman or native bodies in Britain: The evidence of late Roman nail-cleaner strap-ends | Oxford | Blackwell Publishing |
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