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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy medieval strap-end, missing its ?openwork finial and part of its cast backplate.The strap end is 49mm long and max.33mm wide. It weighs 16.51g. The cast backplate is peculiar in that it bends downwards slightly while the sides increase in height. At the break they are 5mm tall.At the broken end (which has expanded to 19mm wide) the edge is jagged and apparantly broken across two rivet holes, although there are no rivet remains. Here the backplate is 1.5mm thick and the gap between the sides 14mm. This narrows to 11mm where the backplate thickens into the decorative plate beyond. Two in situ copper alloy rivets are at this end.The sides themselves are curious in that they are [ shaped in section, with the insides cut away. Presumably the top plate rested on top, and the decoration on this was carried on directly from the projecting plate as the decoration stops rather abruptly.The projecting plate is decorated with a wiggly stem, and a branch with leaves extending either side, and ending as a curving shape around the missing terminal which is apparantly openwork - a crescent of openwork survives. While the branches and stem are undecorated the curving shape has grooves cut into it and the background is cross-hatched.Additionally there appears to be openwork or at least projecting decoration around the outside edges of the strap end.No parallel in Egan, G. (1991) Dress Accessories. Probably 14th or 15th century in date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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