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Description: | Cast copper alloy one-piece strap end, rectangular in plan and profile and section, tapering to its recessed terminal. The terminal is broken but has one protrusion left, suggesting that it may have originally been more ornamental, like the examples listed below, which have animal-head and pelleted-rosette terminals. The upper face of the strap end has incised decoration in the form of a quatrefoil, or four-petalled flower, within a square border. The example below, No.1601, also has a four-petalled flower within a square border. There are two rivets at the open upper end of the strap end, which are still holding in the remains of the leather strap within the rectangular aperture.Griffiths, Philpott and Egan (2007) illustrate similar examples excavated from Meols, on the north Wirral coast, on page 135, Plate 23, Nos.1601-2, which are dated from the late 14th to the early 16th century.Egan (2005) illustrates a similar example of a strap end with a recessed terminal loop on page 41, Fig.23, No.149, which is dated from the late 15th to the 16th century. The closest parallel is illustrated by Ward-Perkins (1967) in the London Museum Medieval Catalogue 1940 on page 270, Fig.85, No.1 which is dated from the late 15th to the early 16th century.
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