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Description: | Fragment of a strap, probably from a Post-Medieval breast plate or other armour.Natasha Ferguson from the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology in Glasgow has seen a photograph of this item and says it is probably a 'strap from a piece of armour such as a breast plate which would have been worn in the civil war era'.It consists of two or three sub-rectangular strips of leather, laid on top of each other and held together by circular copper alloy rivets. Both ends and each side are uneven and they all seem to have been damaged/broken. This is only a small fragment of the complete strap. The rivets are raised above the leather on one face, they have raised circles in the centre which are the ends of the shafts. On the other face the rivets are set in the leather and are flat.This is an interesting battlefield find as leather does not often survive.
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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