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Description: | A largely complete copper-alloy medieval composite strap-end. The strap-end is relatively elaborate in its form and decoration. The main body of the strap-end is sub-trapezoidal in shape, tapering as it travels towards a quatrefoil knop. The upper sheet plate is damaged at the attachment end and bent round on itself. The lower sheet plate has been broken where the uppermost of the ?three rivets pierces it (there may have been a further rivet hole at the attachment end). The upper surface is decorated within a central field delineated by logitudinal incisions which join, having converged, echoing the strap-end's terminal. The field is divided into triangles through zigzag lines; triangles starting on one side of the border are decorated with four or five transverse incisions, while the opposing triangles have been left plain. Such an strap-end is likely to date to the 14th or 15th centuries AD (cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 142, 144; figs. 93, 94, for composite strap-ends). | Subjects: | Composite | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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