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Description: | A small copper-alloy plate from a medieval composite buckle or strap-end. The attachment end is incurved and has two copper-alloy rivets. There are no traces of any decoration or gilding. Along the edges on the reverse are two roughened strips of decayed solder, extending along the lengths and round onto the short straight edge. This is where a forked spacer plate was attached. Dark green patina.
Composite buckles and strap-ends are well known from the 14th century. Examples similar to this one have been found in London; see Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 329 (buckle) and 662 (strap-end). | 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
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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