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Description: | Long thin mount made from gilded copper-alloy, probably originally from a box. Now bent into a U shape, the central part is D-shaped in section, undecorated and 2.5 mm wide. At either end it expands into a wider lobe, each of which has a separate copper-alloy rivet 4-5 mm long. One of these lobes is decorated with radiating grooves which probably originally formed a double-strand saltire; beyond this lobe, the metal is drawn out into a point which is curled up and back on itself to form a small loop. The other lobe is incomplete, but appears to have been decorated with a pair of transverse ridges to either side of the rivet. The end of this lobe is missing, broken across the outer pair of grooves which run across a perforation. No exact parallel has been found, but it seems likely from the variety of box fittings cited in Egan 1998 that the looped end could be part of a hinge between box body and lid. The broken perforation could be part of a second rivet hole. This type of strap-like box fitting can be found throughout the medieval period, but is perhaps more common in the earlier half. Unbent length, c. 55 mm; length as bent, 28 mm; maximum width, 9 mm.
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