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Description: | A copper-alloy strap fitting consisting of an incomplete flat rectangular shaped plate with a hook projecting from one terminal. It measures 25mm in surviving length and 8mm in width. There is one complete rivet hole at the terminal end and another incomplete one through the incomplete end of the flat plate, its attachment end is missing due to old breaks now worn. The front face of the plate is decorated with a row of fleur de lis motifs. The hook projects upwards, outwards and forwards from the front face, it is U-shaped in profile and terminates in a zoomorphic terminal end which tapers to a rounded point. This terminal end represents an animals head, triangular in shape with a tapering snout. There are two parallel indented circular eyes. This strap fitting is likely to have been attached to a leather belt or strap via rivets through the flat rectangular plate, implements could then have been suspended from the terminal hook. It is most likely to be medieval in date.
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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