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Description: | A complete copper-alloy medieval composite strap-end. It is sub-trapezoidal in plan: the body is 29.1mm long, with a terminal element 8.95mm in length. Below the main body the strap-end incurves to a minimum width of 5.0mm. Below this is a trefoil-shaped terminal, the side fleurs formed by indented nicks. The spacer plate, of which the terminal forms part, is c. 32mm in length. Transverse ridges on both surfaces above the terminal mark the point where the outer sheet plates begin. The upper sheet plate is decorated with three rows of rouletted ?triangles at the attachment end. At this end it is attached to the lower sheet with a central rivet. Both sheet plates are slightly squashed and have corroded to a mid/dark-green colour. The spacer plate, however, made from a different alloy, is now a dark grey. Such an strap-end is likely to date 14th or 15th centuries AD (cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 142, 144; figs. 93, 94, for composite strap-ends).
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