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Description: | Medieval - Post Medieval copper alloy strap suspension fitting. The strap fitting has a bent strip of copper alloy sheet with a separate copper alloy rivet joining the ends which would originally have gone through the strap. Both ends of the sheet are expanded width ways but the front is larger with a step out in width and an old bend and break at the top suggesting it was originally longer. From the loop of the strip is suspended a thin copper alloy ring. Similar examples of suspended rings are known from Medieval straps (e.g. Egan and Pritchard 1991:221, fig 138) however this example is much more flimsy and less well shaped than the example above. Dimensions of suspension strip: length 13.1mm, width 4.2mm, thickness 4.4mm. The diameter of the ring 13.3mm Total length 25.0mm. Weight: 0.99 grams.
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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