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Description: | Cast copper alloy strapend, shield-shaped in plan and flat in section with a central repous??e boss, 11 mm in diameter, standing 4.5 mm proud of the surface of the fitting. There are three rivet holes running above the boss, along the top edge of the fitting, which are 1.5 mm in diameter. On the back of the fitting, there are two integral lugs, 3.5 mm in diameter, protruding 3.4 mm out from the surface. The lugs would have been used as spacers between the original back-plate, now missing, and this plate, as part of a composite piece. The rivets would have attached the strapend to the leather strap, which would have extended up to the lug spacers.
Read (1988) illustrates similar types of strapends on page 66, Nos.345-346, which are dated from the 15th to the 16th century.
The style of the strapend with its central boss is also reminiscent of book clasps and mounts of the same period, as seen in Margeson (1993) on page 75, Plate XIII. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tyacke, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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