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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy three-piece composite strap end of Medieval, fourteenth century date (AD 1350 ? AD 1400). Length 61mm, maximum width 20mm and maximum thickness 4mm. Weight 15.88g. The strap end has roughly rectangular front and back plates separated by a thick spacer occupying the full width of the plates. It ends in a sub-rectangular terminal knop with a rounded end. At the knop end, both edges of the plates and spacer have been notched to form a decorative profile. Adjacent to these features, at the centre, there is an openwork quatrefoil. At the attachment end, the spacer has a finished straight edge and the two plates at this end have old ragged breaks. The front of the knop is decorated with a transverse groove below which there are seven radiating grooves. This decorated part of the knop is an additional piece of sheet copper alloy riveted together with the two plates and the spacer. The rivet is visible at the rear but barely visible at the front. Another similar rivet, along the longitudinal centre-line, holds the plates and spacer together. Both rivets are made of copper alloy. A transverse fracture on the rear plate passes through the rivet hole. Most of the patina has exfoliated from both faces. However, the surviving patina is a light to mid green colour and the front face has engraved rocker-arm decoration. The rear face appears to be plain and there are a number of scratch marks on the rear of the knop. These scratch marks were probably created whilst the object was in use. | 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: | 1350
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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