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Description: | Made from a piece of thin copper-alloy sheet, less than a millimetre thick, cut into a sub-triangular or truncated oval shape with a 4 mm wide projection in the centre of the short straight edge. The projection is folded over with a wide gap at the fold, presumably for a hinge bar, and then widens out again into a sub-rectangular under-plate. The two halves are held together by a single copper alloy rivet and the underplate is then crudely cut off in three short snips. The upper plate has a ring-and-dot either side of the rivet, then another transverse row of three ring-and-dots. Between this and the rounded terminal is a longitudinal rectangular perforation measuring 8 x 4 mm. The terminal has a single ring-and-dot. Overall dimensions 40 x 16 mm. The use of this object is uncertain. It might have formed part of a hinge, or the rectangular perforation might have been used with a swivelling tab as in Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 570-571. Its flimsiness and the single rivet remain a problem, though, as it would have been very weakly fixed to any strap. Dating is very difficult as no parallel has been found. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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