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Description: | Incomplete Medieval composite strap-end with forked spacers and acorn-type terminal (1300-1400 AD). The find consists of the front plate and forked spacers of a Medieval composite strap-end; the black plate is missing. The remaining plate has lost its upper edge, which has broken off at the rivet hole, leaving half of the hole. The rest of the plate remains, and is joined to the forked spacers at the second rivet hole which still has the rivet in situ. This rivet hole is set in a little further up from the terminal of the strap end, which curves inwards to abut a raised square-sectioned collar and an acorn-type terminal. On the reverse of the strap end, the plate has been lost and the forked spacers are visible. One of the spacers has been broken off very close to the fork, the other remains almost full length. The surface of the composite strap-end on this side is badly concreted. The front surface of the strap-end has a bright green patina with patches of bright red corrosion. The strap-end measures 26.0mm long, 9.2mm wide and 2.6mm thick. It weighs 1.75 grams. Egan and Pritchard (1991) illustrate a number of similar examples, p. 144 refs. 675-680, and attribute the form to the 14th century AD.
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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