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Description: | Composite strap-end made from three sheets of copper alloy sandwiched together. The strap-end is basically sub-rectangular, tapering from 16 mm wide at the attachment end to 14 mm wide before being cut into an elaborate (roughly cross-shaped) terminal. The central sheet was originally slightly longer than the other two, but has had its sub-rectangular part folded back on itself to make a gap for the strap at the attachment end. One of the outer plates is decorated on the sub-rectangular part, with a line of worn rocker-arm along each long edge and a line of six double-strand oblique lines down the centre, drawn freehand to form a rough zigzag. In the angles of the zigzag are single V-shaped stabbed punchmarks. The sheets are held together by two copper-alloy rivets at the attachment end, and a third well-concealed copper-alloy rivet in the terminal. It is now slightly bent, which has caused some stress to the metal, and in this condition measures 51 mm long.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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