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Description: | Copper-alloy strap fitting, perhaps a buckle or perhaps a looped mount. It consists of an oval frame or loop, 12 mm wide and 14 mm long, with an integral plate or mount 12 mm long which flares from 7 mm wide at its junction with the loop to 9 mm wide at the far end. The plate has two holes set longitudinally. The object may be a buckle, with one hole for a pin and one for a rivet; originally it was thought to be an incomplete double-looped buckle with central plate (as Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 488, thought to be from a spur) but it is now clear that the far end of the plate is an original edge and not a break. A single rivet attachment for a buckle would, however, not be very strong, and an alternative is that it is a looped mount similar to the hinged examples shown in Egan and Pritchard 1991 (nos. 1189-93). Both would date to the medieval period. | 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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