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Description: | A cast copper alloy strap fitting or clasp. The strap or leather attachment and a suspension loop remain. The suspension loop is very bent and round in cross section; it is 40.61mm in length, 14.18mm wide and 3.0mm thick at the widest point. There no obvious pin rest or strap bar as is usual on a buckle frame of this date suggesting it was used as a suspension loop or as part of a clasp with something hooked over it; there is considerable wear on the side opposite the belt attachment which would also support this view.The strap attachment is made of a single piece of copper alloy plate wrapped around the suspension loop and riveted. The front has a main rectangular body with a bar extending opposite the suspension loop which ends in two lobes. There is a rivet hole at the end of this bar and a seperate rivet still in place at the centre of the main body which goes through to the back plate. The front plate is 24.7mm long by 29.7mm wide. From the front a triangular section is wrapped around the suspension loop to form the back; it is 13.1mm long by 23.5mm wide. This is narrows where it goes around the loop and has a central slot at this point. At the apex of the triangle at the back is the rivet that comes through from the front. The plate is 1.21 thick and the entire item weighs 7.16g.The front of the attachment plate is decorated with engraved lines in a diamond pattern with circles of impressed dots in the diamonds. There are traces of gilding in some of the dots.Although similar in some ways to Margeson (1993, 27; ref. 141) the loop appears too rough and flimsy for a buckle.The design and form suggests a medieval or early post medieval date.
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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