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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap end or clasp of Medieval date. The separately cast sheet copper-alloy plate and part of the frame survives intact, the remainde rof the object now missing due to old breaks. The frame is sub-rectangular in form with a narrowed cyindrical bar, the one surviving side being rectangular in form and section. Around the bar hinges the separately cast plate, whcih is rectangular in form and folded to create an upper and lower plate of equal size, held together at the attachment end by a single central rivet with flattened round heads. It measures 29.70mm in length, 12.65mm in width, 3.61mm in thickness, and weighs 1.96g. This is an incomplete strap end or clasp of Medieval date (e.g. Egan and Pritchard, 1991: nos. 552, 566), probably belonging in the 14th century AD. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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