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Description: | Cast copper alloy spacer plate from a medieval composite strap-end with large knop terminal. It is 30.5mm long, 12.2mm wide and 4.5mm thick; it weighs 2.44 grams. The front and back plates are missing. The spacer section (above the collar) has a flat triangular plate from which rises two prongs, one at each edge; both are rectangular in cross section and taper from the plate. One prong is broken shorter than the other but both appear to have old breaks at the end, the longer one is 19.1mm long. Below the expanded oval collar, which marks the point the plates would have ended, there is a waist and the the terminal expands into an oval knop 7.5mm long by 4.6mm. Similar strap-ends can be found illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 144; fig. 94, no.680) and date to the 14th or 15th centuries AD. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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