Object: Slide-Fastener
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection,1927-2484,H. Prigg
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Burwell,Reach Fen,1867
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 54
Width (mm): 19
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 13.02
Surface: Finely pitted dull green.
Associations: Hoard of Late BRonze Age, Nos. 2451-2489, including similar object, knives, socketed celts, spearheads, sword fragment, small tools, fittings, etc. For details, see Socketed Celt No. 2451
Description: Orifice, irregular, at right angles to loop of round section. One end of tube plugged by rivet. Remains of wood in tube (Evans).
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, p. 397, Fig. 494.,H. Prigg, Journ. Brit. Arch. Assn. XXXVI, 56 ff., Fig. 18