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Description: | Strap-fitting, perhaps a strap-end, made from a piece of copper-alloy sheet folded in half and secured by two rivets. One rivet is now missing and that corner is bent and damaged; the other rivet is made from copper alloy. A line made from very neat rouletted squares runs outside the rivets and up either side, but does not continue beyond the fold. There is a slight gap at the fold, as if to accommodate a bar, and a very slight taper as if to accommodate a frame. The object is not neatly square; the corners are not at right angles. As it stands, a use as a strap-end would be perfectly sensible, but as it could also accommodate a frame the object could be a plate from a strap clasp. Probably 13th to 15th century. | 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: | 1300
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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STRAP END
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