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Description: | A medieval strap-end of composite construction dating to 14th century, possibly incomplete. The object is sub-circular in form and its front features a central spade-shaped grooved aperture which is flanked on either side by a hole and extant rivet. Although only the front view has been recorded (see notes, below), the recorder states that the front and back plate both survive either side of a forked spacer and attached by the rivets. There appears to be a slight split extending into the body of the visible front plate from the aperture. One might also conjecture that the spacer has been broken. In a number of examples of this type the spacer terminates in an acorn-shaped knop which protrudes beyond the front and back plates; there is no such protrusion in this example. A parallel for this artefact can be found illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 141; ref. 649).
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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