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Description: | Copper alloy leaf from composite strap end of mediaeval type. A sheet of copper alloy tapering from 22mm width to 20mm over a length of 46mm, thickness 0.7mm. One surface is rough, the other smooth and ornamented with engraved marks. At the wider end, the short edge is concave, recessed from two outer points, and has a central V-notch with a small rivet-hole either side of it. The ornamented surface consists of a long, sharply zig-zag line running along the margin of the upper surface to a breadth of 4mm, but also with similar markings crossing the surface from side to side made with a small instrument of the same kind, and with two curved markings of similar kind beneath the rivet holes as if suggesting the appearance of eyes. This sheet is the outer and presumably upper leaf of a largish strap end of 13th-14th century type, probabl;y from a three-leaf construction or from a two-leaf type with forked spacer within. It is not substantial enough to be a strap end it its own right. | 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: | 1150
1350 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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