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Description: | A Medieval cast copper alloy strap clasp with strap plate or possibly buckle. The frame is trapizoid in plan and has thin, slightly convex, upper and lower sides and a recessed strap bar. The outside edge is recessed and has a seperate copper alloy sheet roller or possibly part of a plate strap clasp. The outer edges of the upper and lower sides have slight raised lines opposite the ends of the strap bar and outer edge. The strap bar is completely covered by the plates of the buckle frame which have been formed by folding one sheet of copper alloy around the bar. By the strap bar is a central hole thoguh the plates filled with iron corrosion, either the rivet or, possibly, the iron pin for a buckle as there is also iron corrosion on the outer edge of the frame. At the opposite end of the plates in the centre, two circular holes show where the second rivet would have been, this attachemnt end is plain and rectangular. The buckle has a light grey-green patina. It is 16.0mm long (at the buckle) 14.6mm long (at the plates), 36.2mm wide and a maximum thickness of 5.3mm. It weighs 5.64 grams.The form of the frame is similar to strap clasps (Egan and Pritchard p.118, no.551-9) and the outer roller could have extending into a folding plate however these seldom have rivet holes by the strap bar which is the usual position for a pin hole.
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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