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Description: | A cast copper-alloy strap loop or slide of Post-Medieval date. It has a flat, rectangular plate with expanded trefoil shaped terminals and moulded decoration on the front face. This decoration comprises scrolled foliate or floral motifs contained within a narrow border. On the flat back face are two integrally cast copper-alloy lugs that are flat, rectangular in form and taper to rounded tips that have been folded to an angle of 90 degrees at their outer edges to form a neat rectangular aperture. The entire object measures 26.45mm in length, 10.47mm in width, 1.91mm in thickness, 15.17mm in height (including lugs), and weighs 3.93g. It dates to the Post-Medieval period, c.16th-17th centuries AD if not a little later.
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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