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Description: | A probable sheet copper alloy strap plate of later fourteenth or early fifteenth century date. The flat rectangular fitting measures 41.7mm in length, 21.9mm in length, 1.2mm in thickness and weighs 5.7g. Each of the shorter sides has had three rounded triangular notches removed. The central notch is slightly larger and a short horizontal line has been incised across the plate from the 'points'. There is a rivet hole at each angle. Three of the rivets are broken in situ but the fourth is intact. In the centre of the fitting there are two puched perforations which have diameters of around 4.8mm.
Geoff Egan has suggested that this object is a variation with two holes on a fourteenth to fifteenth century strap plate. Some examples have surviving straps which indicate that these fittings were designed to be used with a back-plate to hold together two separate lengths of leather. The closest parallel in Egan and Pritchard's 'Dress Accessories' is no. 1216 (1991, pp. 225, 227, fig. 141). The London example is a very similar size but has one central perforation and larger trefoil apertures have been removed from the two shorter sides. | 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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