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Description: | Medieval copper-alloy strap end with a cast front plate and a sheet back plate. The plates are attached to one another by two rivets, one at each end. The back plate has come loose from the front at the upper-most rivet, and is now at an angle to the rest of the artefact. The strap end tapers from 18 mm at the attachment end to 10 mm before terminating in a zoomorphic head in the round, probably intended to represent a dog, but possibly another creature such as a mouse or rat. The creature's ears, eyes and nose are represented by fairly crude incisions, making precise identification of the animal difficult. The reverse of the strap end is flat. Similar two piece strap ends, except with human rather than zoomorphic terminals, are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard's 'Dress Accessories' (1991) (Page 132, Plate 86). This example probably dates to the 14th century.
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