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Description: | A copper alloy strap fitting of Medieval date. It is formed from two thin and flat rectangular plates, which may originally have been one single sheet of copper alloy that was folded in half to form the strap end. At the top are two cylindrical rivets that pierce both upper and lower plates and have slightly flattened circular heads. The front face of the upper plate has incised decoration within an incised border that traces the exterior edge of the plate. This comprises two letters, seemingly B or NI(?), with incised rocker decoration in all areas of the field between the letters and border. The lower plate is undecorated and slightly crudely finished with a rough uneven surface. The entire object measures 27.60mm in width, 22.34mm in height, 0.96mm in thickness, and weighs 3.14g. This is a copper alloy strap fitting or strap end of Medieval date. Similar undecorated examples of varying size are noted from Medieval London (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: nos. 583, 617). Simple copper alloy mounts with near identical incised lettering and rocker decoration are also noted in Medieval London (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: no. 1050; Mitchiner, 1986: no. 821). A very close parallel combining both the strap end and decorative incised elements seen on the current example is noted from Medieval Norwich and dated to the 15th century AD (Margeson, 1993: no. 241). These suggest a date range in the 14th-15th centuries for the current example.
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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