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Description: | A cast copper alloy strap end spacer. The frame has a is oval with two integral arms protruding from one exterior edge. These arms originally tapered towards each other to almost meet at the oval frame. One arm is shorter than the other, but they are both fragmentary. This damage is not too recent. The frame and arms are all rectangular in section. Protruding from the exterior edge of the frame, opposite the arms, is an elongated knop, which is decorated with a transverse collar. The upper and lower surface of the spacer is flat. The surface is abraded, and has a dark grey colour. It measures 32.69mm long, 20.23mm wide and 3.78mm thick. It weighs 4.1g.
Egan and Pritchard (2002 Dress Accessories Boydell Press) illustrate a similar shaped spacer, No. 651 which dates to the second half of the 14th 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: | 1350
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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