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Description: | Hinged strap fitting consisting of a rectangular plate and a hinge bar. The plate is made by folding a piece of copper-alloy sheet 36 mm square in half, around a 2 mm diameter copper-alloy bar 36 mm long. The bar is worn thinner at one end, but the other end is cut off at a right angle. The plate has rectilinear cut-outs at the corners by the bar, one large and one smaller, almost like frame recesses. The attachment edge has two rivet holes, one in the centre and one in one of the corners; the edge of the upper half is decoratively shaped for half its length (alternating short and long scallops, with the rivet holes in the longer scallops) but the corner without a rivet is a simple right angle. It therefore seems possible that the object is unfinished. It can't be part of a buckle, because there is no hole or slot for the pin. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1066
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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