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Description: | An incomplete Medieval (1250-1450) openwork copper alloy strap-end, missing the very edge of the open end through wear. It measures 53.92x10.11x4.63mm and weighs 4.9g.The open end is split for the leather strap and has worn/ broken across two rivet holes (rivets now missing). The area in front of these is worn and perhaps carries traces of grooved decoration. A transverse bar mount a little further on clamps the open end shut, and also visible is the end of a sheet spacer between, which presumably runs the entire length of the strap-end to another transverse bar mount just before the trefoil terminal. The bar mounts are c.4.6mm thick and each fixed with an in situ rivet through the middle.Between the two bar mounts the three thicknesses of copper alloy carry an openwork work design of two 'keyhole' shapes (circle above a rectangle). Between the two is an in situ rivet.The trefoil terminal extends on a triangular point.
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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