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Description: | Medieval Folding strap clasp with integral plate. Folding end (part now broken and dislodged) with small protrusion on the outside edge and solid bar-mount secured by one rivet. Frame with ridge near each corner. Plate covered by sheet folded over the frame bar and secured by three rivets. The spacer is flat. The front is decorated with a trefoil headed openwork aperture, in which is exposed an acorn on a stem with engraved lines on the cup, to be viewed with the frame uppermost. Engraved on both sides of and above the aperture are details of a gothic window surround against a background of closely spaced transverse lines and some wavy lines, which may represent foliage or smoke. A short length of both sides next to the base of the window is chamfered. Below the aperture the front is decorated with the front part of a dog or similar animal, reserved on a ground of more closely spaced transverse lines
The strap (some leather survives) extends past the missing outside edge with trefoil cut out, as far in as a transverse bar supporting the acorn, a distance of >14mm. It is secured by two rivets. Length >57mm, width 16mm.The method construction and the acorn in its aperture can be seen on a strap-end from London (Dress Accessories no.705) | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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