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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy strap end. The item is the flat cast front plate of a strap end that would have originally been composed of two flat plates which would have been adhered to a cloth or leather strap by means of a series of small rivets running top to bottom centrally along the length of the strap end. In this case one such rivet remains but the strap end has broken at the point of the second and the rivet has been lost. The front of the plate is decorated with incised punched dots comprising of a series of diagonal lines running down from left to right of which three and a half remain. A series of dots also run around the edge of strap end and take the form of a diamond shape around the punched quatrefoil on the terminal rather than following the edges of the roundel. This decoration is on one side only the reverse being plain. The item is dark dull green grey or gunmetal in colour and possibly contains a quantity of lead which has given it this dull patination. There is some slight orange coloured corrosion on the reverse of the strap end. The break is worn and clearly took place at a much earlier date.The strap end measures 38.59mm in length, 18.28mm wide and the terminal is 2.29mm thick whilst the main body of the strap end is 1.61mm thick ignoring the marginal lip which runs along the edges.No good parallel could be found for this item at the time of writing this description although the item is of a known type, namely double sheet construction with a cast front plate, which when combined with the style and decoration mean that it can be dated to late 13th century to the early 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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