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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy strap end. A single plate remains with a circular notch at one end. The front is silvered and decorated with two applied copper alloy plates. One plate is V shaped with a circular notch, is set over the pin notch at the attachment end and attached with three domed rivets (two flanking the notch and one at the point of the V). This plate is decorated with small circular recesses and a dotted line. The other plate is rectangular and attached laterally at the other end with larger, domed rivets.One rivet at in the rectangular plate is larger than the other and may be a repair. The plate has a scalloped edge and is also decorated with small circular recesses set between two incised lines. The back of the strap end plate is undecorated.
Date: Late medieval - late 14th to 15th century (pers. comm. Geoff Egan)
Dimensions: 32.8 mm x 17.47 mm x 5.95 mm
Weight: 3.82 g | Subjects: | Composite | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hayward Trevarthen, Ciorstaidh - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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