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Description: | A cast copper alloy medieval composite strap end, formed from two pieces of sheet-metal riveted together. The sheets are long and tapering. The terminal is damaged, therefore no decoration survives. At the open end there is a rivet hole in both plates, with a copper alloy rivet through them, holding the plates together. The front surface has a notch cut into this end and it has been decorated with incised linear decoration. There are four horizontal lines, with a cross in between two of them. There are also two vertical lines, one either side of the rivet. The rest of the strap end is undecorated. The metal is a dark olive-green. This strap end is similar to examples in Egan & Pritchard (1991), p137. Egan & Pritchard date them to the late 14th - 15th century from examples that have been found alongside pottery of the same 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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