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Description: | A cast copper alloy strap fitting or strap junction, which would have been used to attach two/three straps together. The fitting is comprises a circular sectioned element made into two collars. Cast integrally to this is a frame (similar to a buckle frame) which expands to house a narrowed and off-set strap bar. Around the strap bar two strap attachments still remain in situ. Each attachment is formed from a rectangular plate of copper alloy bent around the strap bar. At the open end of each attachment a copper alloy rivet holds the open together, both still survive. Two thin straps would have been attached here, one in either attachment.
The object is heavily corroded and the metal is badly pitted.
It is probably medieval or early post-medieval in date. | 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: | 1200
1650 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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