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Description: | A worn, corroded and slightly damaged medieval composite strap-end with a sheet spacer and strap material surviving. The strap-end is trapezoidal, narrowing gradually to a rounded end with pointed terminal protrusion. The sheet spacer occupies that whole width of the two outer sheets and almost all of their surviving lengths. The whole is held together a single rivet which joins the outer sheets through the strap; the sheet plates were presumably adhered to the spacer. One of the outer sheets has suffered considerable abrasions to its sides and one side of the attachment end; it has also broken around the rivet. As alluded to, material remains of the strap survive in the gap between the outer sheets above the spacer. The object has a mid-green patina with areas of lighter corrosion product. It can be dated to the later 14th century by comparison with examples illustrated in Egan and Pritchard 1991 (142; fig. 93).
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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