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Description: | Copper alloy length 45mm, width 19mm, thickness 4mm, weight 8.71g. The strap end is made of three copper alloy sheet that have riveted together, the middle sheet is a forked spacer which has a recess in the centre for the strap. There is a copper alloy rivet towards the forward edge and two at the attachment end. The forward terminal rapidly narrows to a low point with a knop on the apex. The attachment edge is concave with a circle cut into the centre. Much of the original patina remains, which is dark green, the edges have suffered from corrosion. This sort of strap end has been found in excavated contexts in London and have been dated to the 13th-15th century.
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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