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Description: | A worn and bent cast copper-alloy medieval strap-slide with a pair of short pointed internal projections (c. 1.75mm in length). The artefact has been bent into an irregular five-sided shape; it is presumed that it was originally rectangular (or possibly trapezoidal). The supposed outer edge is thicker, at 3.5mm, and appears to be plain. Medieval strap-slides/loops can be seen illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 234; fig. 149). Geoff Egan (ibid., 231) suggests that strap-slides with internal projections were the earlier form of the object type; they have been found in a wide chronological range of contexts in London, hence the wide date range offered here.
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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