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Description: | Strap fitting made from a piece of copper-alloy strip folded in half and secured at the attachment end with two copper-alloy rivets, both of which survive only as corrosion. The rivet holes on the reverse are broken. It measures 40 mm long by a maximum of 13.5 mm wide at the attachment edge on the upper plate, and tapers to 11 mm wide at the attachment edge on the under plate. Many of the edges are fragmentary, including the attachment edge and the folded edge, but there are some details of the broken edges which may give clues to the original shape. The upper plate has two rounded lobes at the attachment edge, one for each rivet hole, and the folded edge appears to narrow into possible frame recesses. The latter is a characteristic of the plates used with strap clasps, but an alternative function is that of a strap-end. The upper plate is decorated with a pair of transverse grooves close to the folded edge; at the attachment edge, between the rivets, is a single double-groove chevron, then a pair of transverse grooves, then a pair of single-groove chevrons (transversely set) then another pair of transverse grooves. This object was found with another piece of copper-alloy sheet embedded within the fold. The second piece of sheet measures 30.5 x 17 mm, and has the remains of a single broken rivet hole at one end. Its edges are also fragmentary. The function of this piece is unclear; it is too wide to be a spacer plate within the ?strap-end, and its rivet hole is in the wrong place. The weight of the first element is 5.96g, and the weight of the second piece of sheet is 1.87g. | 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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