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Description: | Medieval composite copper alloy strap end with either a side strip or an incomplete formed spacer. The strap end is formed of two sheets of copper alloy, rectangular with a straight end at the attachment end, slightly tapering sides and a convex shallow point at the terminal end. There is a seperate copper alloy rivet in the centre near the attachment end. Between the front and back plates is a copper alloy spacer running down the entire lengh at one side. The attachment end corners are rounded, possibly from damage. It measures 22.6mm in length, 7.5mm wide and is 2.5mm thick. It weighs 1.09 grams.Egan and Pritchard (1991) illustrate strap ends with seperate side strips (p.137) these are usually (although not always) thinner than this example and made of thin copper alloy sheet; it is therefore probable that this is actually a broken forked spacer similar to those illustrated elsewhere in the same volume, e.g no.685, p.145. Egan and Pritchard (ibid:145) suggest this is a mainly 14th century form, starting in the late 13th and continuing, in lower numbers, into the early 15th centuries.
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