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Description: | Cast copper alloy strap end length 79mm, width 34mm, thickness 6mm, weight 28.16g. The terminal is a rectangular integral hollow plate in plan 24mm long by 20mm wide, the aperture is 1mm tall and 15mm wide. At the attachment end there are two rivet holes each retaining a copper alloy rivet. At the opposite end of the plate has a collared. There is a narrowed rectangular waist separating the plate from the main body of the strap end. The main body is cordate shaped, with the narrowest part pointing towards the plate. Along the edges running down the narrowest point of the cordate on either side are moulded scroll motifs each of these have four holes that have been drilled from the top. The inside of the cordate is hollow, edges are 4mm wide, with the exception of a bird that has its head turned to the right a drilled hole under the chin and in the pose of displaying. The animal it is standing on the internal projection of the cordate, each wing is touching each respective side, and therefore insuring greater strength of the piece buy connecting all three sides via the bird. The terminal of the strap end has a five petaled flower that sits in the external recess of the cordate. The flower has a central boss, each petal has a recess running around the edge. The bottom two petals have a circular drill hole with a third in the bottom centre.
There is a tiny fragment of gold on the face and again on the reverse, showing that the whole of the artefact was gilt.
The overall condition is poor, corrosion has attacked the object resulting in a greenish brown pitted surface, there is active bronze disease on the central bird.
Artefacts such as these have documented on a number of brasses such as John Cory, at Stoke Fleming, d1391 (Ward Perkins, 1967, 266-267). Ward Perkins suggests that this type of strap end date to the 1390-1410 (1967, 268). However, recent work done on excavated buckles from London has shown that this style of attachment, that of a hollow integral plate, is more of a early 15th century practice (Egan, 1991, 102-106), therefore a 1375-1450 date is the most likely. . | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adams, Kurt - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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