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Description: | A cast copper alloy composite strap end with moulded decoration on one side. The strap end may have a sheet spacer occupying its entire length, although this is not clear. The upper part of the strap end is almost rectangular, with sides tapering from 16.51 to 14.27mm wide. It has a straight attachment edge with two short rectangular protrusions, below which are two circular rivets. The strap end terminates in an acorn-shaped knop.
The back plate of the strap end is undecorated apart from the knop. The front plate has two adjacent openwork panels in the upper part that are rectangular with a downward-pointing trefoil terminal. The moulded sides of these panels and the enclosing U-shaped panel have twisted cable decoration. Within these open panels are pointed oval acorn motifs with cross-hatching below an S-shaped stem. The U-shaped panel extends downwards to form a lis in the lower part of the panel. The lis has a large lozenge shaped central fleur and two scrolling side fleurs with a bar above. The area around (and a triangular area between the two trefoil panels) is decorated with rough horizontal hatching.
A parallel can be seen in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 149 fig. 97 no. 705), dated to the early fifteenth century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ghey, Eleanor - British Museum | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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