Object: Strap Mount
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,Purchased by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, April 1919,1919.b
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Wilburton,In fen-land owned by Mr. Oliver Claude Pell,1882
Parish: Wilburton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 41
Width (mm): 34
Weight (g): 11
Surface: Very thin and brittle metal fused and shows tin in places, also yellow and brown.
Associations: The Wilburton Hoard
Description: "Object much more like a modern scabbard end, but appears to be hardly thick enough for that purpose. Its two faces are not solid, but have openings through them on each side of a central bar. One face of this object is ornamented in nearly the same way as that last described. Not only is there a recess through the broad straight end, but there is an oval hole 15mm long through the rounded end." (Archaeologia)
Publications: Archaeologia, XLVIII, 106,New Cambridge 17 May 1919