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Description: | Cast copper-alloy spacer plate from a medieval composite strap-end with large acorn knop terminal. It is 25.2mm long, 17.5mm wide and up to 4.5mm thick; it weighs 2.87 grams. The front and back sheet plates are missing. The spacer section (above the collar) has a flat crescentic plate formed of two prongs, both seemingly missing their tips. Both are rectangular in cross-section and taper slightly from the plate. Although there are filemarks on the flat surfaces the inner edge has not been filed down on one prong especially. Below the expanded sub-rectangular collar, which marks the point the plates would have ended, there is a waist and the the terminal expands into a well moulded acorn knop 9.2mm long by 6.2mm. The upper part features fine cross hatching. Similar strap-ends can be found illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 141; fig. 92) and Margeson (1993, 35; ref. 236) who date them to the 14th century.
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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STRAP END
An incomplete medieval (1400 -1450)…
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