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Description: | A three-piece composite medieval cast copper-alloy strap-end. Sub-trapezoidal in shape with a biconcave terminal. 13.5mm at the attachment end, tapering to 8.3mm and the terminal end above the terminal point. Neither external plate is decorated. Given the leather retained between the two plates it is difficult to discern a central spacer-plate. The plates are held together by two rivets: one towards the attachment end and one towards the terminal. The strap-end seems quite crude as the plates are not in alignment. The reverse face has suffered from pitting. Similar examples can be found illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 147; figs. 694, 696). These are both dated to the second half of the fourteenth century.
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