Object: Slide Fastener
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2483,H. Prigg
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Burwell,Reach Fen,1867
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 60
Width (mm): 19
Thickness (mm): 10
Weight (g): 17.26
Patina: Greenish-brown Patina, smooth.
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Hoard of Late Bronze Age, Nos. 2451-2489, including socketed celts, spearheads, knives, sword fragment, small tools, fittings, ornaments, etc., and another example of mount similar to this. For details, see Socketed Celt No. 2451.
Description: Oval rimmed opening on side opposite long low loop of 4-sided section. Both ends of tube open. Remains of wood in tube (Evans) of 2nd example (qt. below).
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 397, Fig. 493,Prigg, Journ. Brit Arch. Assn., XXXVI, 56ff, Fig. 17.