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Description: | A copper-alloy strap-end of probable late 13th or early 14th century AD date. A very similar strap-end was found in London in a deposit dating to this period; it is probably derived from the late Saxon openwork strap-end tradition (G. Egan and F. Pritchard; 1991; pp. 132).The object has been cast in one piece and is trapezoidal with a trefoil terminal at the narrower bottom end. The main section is of an openwork design, having two small circular holes at the bottom end, a pair of sub-rectangular holes (aligned parallel to each other) at the centre and a larger circular hole at the centre of the top egde of the plate. The spaces between the holes are decorated with roughly-executed incised lines, which extend into the trefoil terminal. There are two rivets at the wide top edge of the plate (one on each corner) and a third rivet at the centre of the trefoil terminal. The reverse is plain.The object is slightly bent. It measures 40.7mm long, by 20.3mm wide and 1.6mm thick; the weight is 5.68g.
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