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Description: | Medieval furniture fitting, binding strip of D-section in crumpled condition, both broken, flattened and expanded ends decorated with an engraved saltire. Much, probably once all, of the convex surface carries transverse engraved lines, extreme wear having removed much of the evidence. There is a very slight suggestion of a rivet hole truncated by the break at one end. Length >195mm. Width 4mm, terminals 8mm. Related to strips found on many high status sites of the 12th and 13th century. (A. Goodall in Coad and Streeten 1982, 235-8), although the length without rivet holes is extreme. One more distorted example from Castle Acre castle (ibid. fig. 44 no. 21) is similarly long. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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