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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy crescentic-shaped composite strap-end of medieval date (c. 1400 ?? c. 1450 AD; Geake 2001, 32). The object comprises a sub-circular frame forming a cresentic shape with an elaborate sub-triangular outside edge in the form of a terminal. The circular part of the frame is pierced with an off-centre oval opening. The moulded terminal features a flared projection having initially tapered. At the junction of the terminal and the main plate are three perforations: one central, the other two in projecting semicircular lobes.
The artefact has a flat lower face. The thin copper-alloy back-plate is now missing, but one can see where it would have sat; the lower surface is recessed, apart from the projecting terminal, to accommodate it. Two rivets survive towards the terminal, while a further rivet survives corroded in one of the arcs of the main plate; the final rivet hole has been truncated where this arc has been bent upwards slightly in the past. The upper surface of the frame is decorated an incised border with a further bounded area of incised diagonals inside it. Central on the plate, above the terminal, appears to be a letter in blackletter script, possibly a 'D'. It is infilled with incised diagonals. A longitudinal incision can be found on the terminal with further indistinct incised decoration to each side.
The front face is partially corroded and a dark grey-green patina has survived in places. Some dark coating also appears to survive on this surface. There is some orange corrosion product around one of the rivet holes. Inscription: d? | Subjects: | Crescentic 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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