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Description: | Medieval strap end; long, cast copper alloy strap end formed of two sheets riveted together. The style of this strap end suggests a 13th or 14th century date. The strap end is very long and narrow with a long, ornate terminal shaped with bands and lobes and ending in a tri-lobed ??fleur?? shape. A single rivet holds the two sheets of copper alloy together at the point of the final lobe before the fleur terminal. Towards the attachment end the sheets of the strap end separate and there is a small amount of seemingly organic material, probably leather, between the two sheets at the very end of the object. The leather is held in place by another rivet. There is no extant decoration beyond the shape.
Length 45.5mm, width 7.1mm, thickness 3.6mm, weight 3.00g
Ref: See Egan??s ??Dress Accessories??, pages 124-125 and 132. See also strap end 605, illustrated on page 131, for a similar style of design. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rohde, Anja | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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