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Description: | A complete post-Medieval cast copper-alloy hooked strap fitting with part of an attached double-looped buckle (1600-1700 AD).This object is composed of three elements, the body, the hook and the incomplete buckle.The body of the fitting is flat, sub-triangular in plan and sub-rectangular in cross-section. It has a cross piece formed by two projecting rounded lugs close to the hook end and a central rounded knop at the opposite end. Both of these features are pierced and contain the remains of a separate corroded iron rivet. A single entity of openwork in the body consists of a trefoil shape of two sub-circular and one sub-triangular opening. This openwork is bevelled at the front.The hook is sub oval in cross-section. It curves forwards and then upwards so that its tip almost makes contact with the front of the body.The buckle is incomplete. One loop and a small portion of one of the sides of the other loop have survived. The surviving loop is square in plan, roughly square in cross-section and the bar is sub-oval in cross-section.Both the fitting and the buckle have an even mid-green patina. The breaks on the buckle are abraded.Overall length: 61.8mm. Weight: 11.16g.Fitting: 52.9 x 21.7 x 11.4mm.Buckle: 19.6 x 17.4 x 2.8mm.A complete example of this type of strap fitting from south-west Wiltshire has been published and dated to the 17th century (Read 2001: 30. fig. 25, ref: 356).
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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