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Description: | A worn and incomplete strap-end with a cast front plate and a sheet back plate. The cast front plate has a surviving length of 26.5mm and a maximum width of 22.0mm. It consists of a hollow trapezoidal element and a broken open-work projection beyond. The trapezoidal element tapers from the maximum width cited to a width of 19.3mm at the junction of the two sections. It is cast with three edges, the fourth being the back plate which is bent in towards the front plate following old damage. The two plates were attached through four rivets, two of which are extant. Towards the junction is a pair of raised transverse lines. Within the main field is a bordered area in the centre of which is a worn design featuring a lozenge, possibly a stylised flower. Beyond the raised lines the strap-end narrows to a width of 14.9mm, before expanding on each side in the form of curved projections, both now broken. The projection on the left of the obverse is now all but gone, while that on the right curves for 7.4mm. In the absence of most of the open-work element this is best classified as a 'hollow ended' strap-end. This type, as Geake (2001, 32) states, was popular from the end of the 14th century for the next 100 or so years. | Subjects: | Hollow ended | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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