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Description: | A copper alloy Medieval strap end. It is a composite, tapering rectangular strap-end with openwork decoration in the form of a circular perforation on one plate, and an incomplete trefoil on the other. The attachment edge is scalloped and there is a single central rivet in situ close to the edge. The back and front plates taper toward the lower terminal which is incomplete. There is a flat disc, bent up at right angles (most likely due to plough action)which has a broken flat edge, and the underside of this is recessed. It would presumably have joined a similar disc from the other plate, but this is missing due to old breaks. The sheet spacer can be seen in the gap between the two plates. The strap-end measures 44.67mm in (unbent) surviving length, and is 14.54mm wide at the attachment edge, tapering to 8.72mm at the lower edge. The protruding disc is 17.28mm in diameter and is undecorated. The object is 5.35mm in thickness, including the spacer, and weighs 7.37g.Examples from medieval London, from the mid fourteenth to mid fifteenth centuries with more elaborate decoration are illustrated in Egan 1991, fig.97, nos 704-5.
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