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Description: | Medieval (1225-1450 AD) copper alloy strap end formed of two pieces of copper alloy sheet riveted together with a seperate rivet at the attachement end. The terminal ends are loose and have no evidence of ever being riveted together suggesting there was originally side strips or a spacer between them, now lost, held by solder. The strap end has a straight attachement end, slightly tapering sides and a terminal end expanded into a centre point. The front is decorated with a line of incised dashes running parallel to the edge and just inside it and four transverse lines of pellets running across the attachement end. The rivet is completely flush with the front. The back is plain with the back of the rivet less neatly finished. It is 30.7mm long, 15.7mm wide and 3.1mm thick, it weighs 2.22 grams. Egan and Pritchard (1991) page 138, no.640 is similar in form although undecorated and has side strips.
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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