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Description: | A corroded and incomplete medieval strap-end (c. 14th century AD). The strap-end is trapezoidal, narrowing gradually to a crudely squared off end with angled terminal protrusion. It was formed of either a sheet spacer plate between a pair of sheets, or simply a pair of sheets; only one survives in full. The complete sheet and the remnant of the spacer/other sheet is held together by a rivets, central just above the terminal; there is a second central at the attachment end. The attachment end is biconcave, formed of two crude, small rounded removals. The object has a dark-green patina where it survives but is largely corroded and of a variable green colour with patches of off-white corrosion product. It can be dated to the later 14th century by comparison with those illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 142; fig. 93).
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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