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Description: | Unidentified object, probably some kind of strap fitting. It consists of a hollow cylinder, slightly tapering from 13 to 11.5 mm wide, with an open narrow end cut into two V shapes and looking very much like an open mouth. The cylinder has been flattened on the reverse, but on the front and sides is decorated with two zones of longitudinal grooves separated by a moulding or step. There are 15 grooves at the wider end and 14 towards the narrower end, and each has been made by rocking a graver to and fro. There is a further transverse moulding beyond the longitudinal grooves at the wider end, interrupted in the centre by a ?worn groove. At the narrower end, only the centre of the V has a moulding. At the wider end, a projection springs from either side of the flattened reverse and these two projections are joined by a bar to form a trapezoidal loop, perhaps for the attachment of a strap. This loop is slightly reminiscent of those on early post-medieval hooked tags. Wear or corrosion has caused a thinning at one point on the bar, near a corner. The object has a velvety greyish patina. The method of decoration is characteristic of the medieval period and there are parallels to this object from Yorkshire. As yet, however, its function has not been identified. | 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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