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Description: | Copper-alloy strap-end. The body of the strap-end is circular in plan with a trapezoidal shape protruding from the outer edge. It is this trapezoidal shape that was attached to the leather. The body of the strap-end has a border of eleven bulbous pellets which are joined together. These pellets are three-dimensional, and therefore appear on the reverse as well. Within the border of pellets there is a second border. This comprises a ridge which is triangular in cross section. This ridge has slots cut across it at regular intervals. The design within the centre has a cross shape whose terminals divide into inward-facing spirals. Nearly half of this design is missing due to damage which has occurred quite recently. The design has been chip-carved. The border of pellets stop when the trapezoidal shape protrudes. This portion of the strap-end is formed by two integral plates and leather survives on the interior. The upper plate is decorated with an inset ridge which has slots cut across it at intervals. The outer edge of the upper plate has two rivet holes within which the copper-alloy rivets are visible. Between the rivet holes there are two sub-triangular indentations as decoration, and this edge is slightly 'W' shaped in plan. The reverse is undecorated. The whole strap-end has a dark green patina. The strap end is thought to be associated with the military and is perhaps continental. Similar strap-ends have been produced in the Rhineland which is where this strap-end may have originated. | 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: | 375
425 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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