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Description: | A two-piece 14th century strap end, which probably functioned as a book clasp, made from copper alloy and gilded. Other similar examples consist of a cast front plate and sheet metal back plate. The strap end consists of a flat square plate, a lozenge-shaped hollow box with a circular hole beneath and a zoomorphic terminal at the distal end. The square plate has two in situ rivets which would have held a leather strap. The front is decorated with an engraved Lombardic letter R, within a rectangle. The interior of the rectangle has been hatched to make the initial stand out. A very similar example, albeit a little larger, can be seen in Mills' Medieval Artefacts (1999, p. 21, no. 31) and there are other examples on the PAS database from Shropshire (HESH-CE2816) and Suffolk (SF-BBA2E6). An example from the Isle of Wight (IOW-108BF1)can be seen in the Portable Antiquities Annual Report 2004/5 (pp. 71-72). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Payne, Naomi - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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