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Description: | A Medieval cast copper alloy composite strap end with open work decoration and sheet spacer occupying the whole width. This object consists of two sub-rectangular sheets, with a wider rectangular-sectioned base and rounded end knop. The two sheets are supported by a sheet spacer which would have occupied the whole width of the strap end in between the upper and lower sheets. All three elements are held together by four circular rivets: two placed at each end.The decorative elements of the object are elaborate with an open work panel and incised decoration. There two central open work niches are sub-rectangular plan with a trefoil shaped arch at one end. They are flanked at the outside by columns and are separated by a thin copper alloy pillar creating niches or windows. In each of these niches is a winding stem which supports an acorn near the top of each arch. Above the central decorations, there is an raised depiction of a Griffin type of animal with a cross hatched back ground. Beneth the central panel is a raised depiction of a trefoil shaped leaf again with a cross hatched background. The terminal knop extends from the front plate and is moulded in the shape of an acorn. The back plate is undecorated. The strap end has been bent over at the top slightly towards the front plate.The strap end measures a total of 52.6 mm long, 16.5 mm wide and 2.7mm thick; the central panel measures 14.1 mm long, 12.9 mm approx. width. The strap end weighs 8.50 grams.Two close parallels are listed in Egan and Pritchard 1991, Fig. 97, Nos. 704, 505. Both of these examples are dated to c. 1350-1450 AD based upon context and ceramic remains.
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