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Description: | The strap end is made of three copper alloy sheet that have riveted together, the middle sheet is a forked spacer which has a recess in the centre for the strap. There is a copper alloy rivet towards the forward edge and a second in the centre of the attachment end. The terminal rapidly narrows to appoint which has the remains of a knop on the apex. Much of the original patina remains, which is dark green, the edges have suffered from corrosion and there are scratch marks on the surface that are post deposition. This sort of strap end has been found in excavated contexts in London and have been dated to the 13th-15th 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: | 1300
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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