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Description: | A complete folded sheet copper alloy probable two-piece strap end (length: 28.8mm; width: 32.5mm; thickness: 9.6mm; weight: 5.93g). Pinched where it has been folded at one end, and expanded outwards at the other where the rivets no longer hold it together, there is still evidence of two rivets holes, with one probable iron rivet still remaining in one at the parted/ expanded end, where the artefact would have been attached to a belt. The front plate is decorated with an engraved/ incised flower motif consisting of four petals radiatting from the central circular bud, and a sloped diamond behind. A rectangular border surrounds the design, but the decoration is rather crude as the ends of the diamond criss-cross irregularly outside the border. Outside of the petals and diamond, the remainder of the space inside the border is decorated irregular engraved/ incised small wavey lines. The back of the artefact is undecorated. Overall, the probable strap end is slightly worn but in a fair condition with some breaks and corroded along the edges and particularly to one corner, where there is a small amount of bronze disease. The originally patina is dark green. Similar examples are illustrated in Egan & Pritchard?s ?Dress Accessories: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London?, 1991, pages 132-6, ref nos 616-7. These are dated to the 13th/ 14th century. Other similar examples are illustrated in Margeson?s ?Norwich Households: Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78?, 1993, pages 36-8, ref nos 241, 245, 247 & 254, which are mainly dated to the 15th/ 16th 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: | 1400
1550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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