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Description: | Incomplete Medieval lyre-shaped openwork strap-end with integral socketed for the strap. The lower part of the lyre is missing, and in the centre the gap between the sides is partly filled by a bird with open wings, to be viewed with the attachment edge uppermost. The sides of the upper part of the lyre are decorated with scroll mouldings, perforations and blind holes. The trapezoidal strap socket is decorated with an engraved black-letter n on a rocker-arm engraved background, and is pierced by two iron rivets. Cf. Fingerlin 1971 Abb. 274-6. Length >55mm. Width 35mm. Interior of socket mouth 19mm wide and 3mm thick. Late 14th ?? early 15th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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