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Description: | Possible dress fastener or strap fitting consisting of three elements, all made from copper alloy. The first is a strap-end, now slightly bent; it measures 14 mm wide and 44 mm long. The front and sides of the strap-end are made in one piece of sheet, and the backplate is separate. They are joined by two iron rivets at the attachment end and a single copper-alloy rivet near the terminal; textile is preserved between the two plates. The front is decorated with three small V-shaped cut-outs to the attachment edge, and rings around the iron rivets. Below this is engraved decoration of a rocker-arm border around three groups of three engraved chevrons. The chevrons are cut by three longitudinal grooves which are joined by a singe short transverse groove just inside the rocker-arm border. At the terminal of the strap-end is a ring at right-angles to the rest of the object; it is apparently fixed on by the copper-alloy rivet. The ring links into the central element, which is perhaps cast; a flat oval loop 21 mm long, with a trefoil projection to one long edge and a small circular loop fitted in either side of the projection. The strap-end's terminal ring passes through one of the small circular loops. In the other loop is another similar ring, also square in cross-section; one end of this ring flares out into a small plate which retains a rivet and also perhaps some decayed solder. This third element is 16 mm long and a maximum of 7 mm wide. The oval loop is paralleled among early post-medieval finds from Amsterdam (Baart 1977); it is interesting that the strap-end is decorated with rocker-arm engraving at this comparatively late date. | 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: | 1500
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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