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Description: | Mediaeval ornamental bronze strap-end of four-leaf construction. The object is 50mm long overall and 13mm wide at the widest point. The trailing end is rectangular, some 30mm long by 13mm wide, the upper surface os which is decorated with a saltire cross produced by double diagonal rows of punched dots. The tag then has curved indents producing a neck of 6mm breadth, on the end of which the finial expands into a foliate cross 12mm broad. The end of each cross arm is indented to suggest a triple fleur. Thge total thickness of the strap tag is 2.5mm, and it consists of four plates, the two outer leaves being slightly thinner than the two inner, spacing leaves. A single, central rivet holds the rectangular cluster of plates together, located nearly at the crossing-point of the saltire ornament. Another rivet is at the centre of the cross-head finilal. The two inner leaves terminate 47mm from the tip of the finial: the upper (ornamented) leaf is broken off before this: the nether leaf extends a little beyond, and is also broken off. No rivet holes for attachment to a strap are visible, and therefore it is likely that the two outer leaves extended some distance beyond the end of the inner leaves. Probably 13th-14th 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: | 1250
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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