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Description: | A cast copper alloy strap fitting, with traces of gilding surviving on the surface.
The object comprises a square, with an openwork aperture in the centre. The aperture is shaped like a cross with rounded arms. This also gives the square fitting four raised square corners, each decorated with a ring and dot motif. The area in-between each corner is narrowed. One of the narrowed recesses houses a strap attachment. It is formed from a loop of copper alloy. On one side the loop joins back together with a rounded rivet head, which the reverse of the joint seems to sit in. This would have once held a leather strap or similar.
The metal is a mid greyish-green colour.
This fitting is medieval in date, a direct parallel could not be found in the normal literature. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrews-Wilson, Liz - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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