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Description: | A copper-alloy decorative strap fitting. This fitting is roughly oval shaped, measuring 31mm in lenght and 27mm in width (at its widest central point). It is decorated on its front face with a lower semi-circular protusion with radiating grooved decoration on it, resembling the petals of a flower. Above this the strap fitting is formed of four rounded lobes, each delimited by a deep boarder groove and arranged to create a square. Two of the lobes have irregular circular perforations through them, it is likely that circular perforations would have been drilled through all four lobes- as is the case in other examples of this kind, this example is perhaps unfinished and so the lobes are as they were cast without their perforations. In the centre of these lobes there is an oval shaped bare face, it is forward facing and the eyes nose and mouth visible. Above this central face and above the centre of the upper pair of rounded lobes there is the remains of another forward facing face. This face is narrower and only the lower half of the face survives. On the back face two incomplete hooks project from either end of the fitting.
This decorative strap fitting is identical to one illustrated in 'Detector Finds' (Bailey 1995, 87 no 10). It is believed to be 17th century in date and used to decorate horse harness straps. Another example has been discovered at Hessett, Suffolk. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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