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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy medieval three-piece composite strap end with forked spacer. Roughly half of both arms of the forked spacer have broken and are missing.
The strap-end is 51.6mm in length and has a rounded pointed collared knop. The top plate has become detatched from the forked spacer and backplate, still attached to each other by the rivet behind the knop, from the which top plate has become loose.
The top plate is decorated with incised triangular punches. A double line follow the edge of the object. Towards the terminal the end is cut in a triangular shape. Inside this 'frame', two more double wavy lines cross each other to give opinted oval shapes in a line.
The top plate has a tiny hole for the rivet at the knop-end, and at the opposite end, on the reverse, a 1.5mm diameter rivet in still in situ.
The forked spacer is 18.9mm in length from its rounded pointed knop to its (old) break.
It is 9.2mm wide just before the knop extends, widening to 10.4mm wide at the opposite end. Weighs 4.37g. Composite strap-ends with forked spacers date from the late 13th to the 14th century. | Subjects: | strap-end | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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