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Description: | The objects below are all most likely to be the outer sheets of copper-alloy composite strap ends, although it is now impossible to tell if these outer sheets were originally attached to forked spacers or sheet spacers occupying their whole width, medieval and c14th century in date.
1: A rectangular outer sheet, 34.2mm in length and 19mm in width. One end has a central circular perforation with a smaller circular rivet holes to either side of this.
2: A rectangular outer sheet tapering towards its terminal end. Measuring 54.4mm in length and 19.2mm in width. There is one in situ copper-alloy rivet in one corner of the attachment end. On the outer face traces of small incised zigzag decoration can be seen. 3: A rectangular outer sheet, measuring 30.9mm in survivng length and 17.3mm in width. There are two parallel copper-alloy rivets, one in each corner, through the attachment end. The front face is decorated with a boarder groove and within this with what appears to be an incised view of the countryside with a hill in the foreground a possible river leading away from this longitudinally down the sheet and to either side of this possible river there is a pine tree.
4: An almost square sheet, measuring 27mm by 27mm in size. There is an iron rivet in each corner of this sheet. Its fornt face is decorated with a square boadrer groove and within this diagonal grooves with smaller diagonal grooves cutting across these. This sheet could be part of a composite strap end but is ould also have functioned as a more simple strap mount.
5: A small rectangular incomplete sheet, measuring 17.3mm in surviving length and 10.6mm in width. It has a circular rivet hole through the centre of one end. Again this last sheet could have functioned as the outer sheet for a composite strap end but could also have been a simple strap mount. | 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: | 1300
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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