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Description: | A medieval copper alloy strap end which is incomplete. It is of composite form (two plates and a spacer) and is circular. The front plate is a decorated crescent shaped plate, which would have left the strap visible in the centre. It has an incised border and further incised decoration which is not clear. The spacer has mainly corroded, but the central decorative knop that projects at the closed end from between the plates survives. It is moulded with feather or foliage decoration and half of it is missing. The back plate is undecorated. There may have been a flared socket for the strap at the attachment end, but this is missing and only the circular body of the object and the decorative terminal survives. Similar strapends in Egan and Pritchard date from ceramic phases 9 to 11 or c.1270 - 1400. There is not an example with a crescent shaped front plate. The strap end is 37.59mm long, 30.84mm wide and 5.87mm thick. It weighs 9.31g.
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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