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Description: | Copper alloy strap end. The strap end has a square hollow body with two holes at the top at the attachment end. These holes pass through both plates andwould have secured the object to the strap. The strap end has a moulded ridge below leading into a narrowed collar and terminating with a broken, perhaps once openwork section. One face of the body of the strap end is decorated with lettering, and although very worn probably read IHC. The surface is extremely worn and there is evidence of gilding. This strap end can be paralleled with examples in the Museum of London's collections and published by Ward Perkins in the Medieval Catalogue (1940) No. A 2625 and 30.17 (fig. 85.1-2) and in the Antiquaries Journal (1939) Pl. XLVII. These two examples are dated by Ward Perkins to 1390-1410.
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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